Follicular helper T-cell memory: Establishing new frontiers during antibody response

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 57-63

  Tsai, Louis M ^a   Yu, Di ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antibody; Memory; Plasticity; Tfh

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; FOLLICULAR HELPER T CELL; HELPER CELL; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; INFECTION; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; REVIEW; VACCINATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY FORMATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 84891819896     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: 14401711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.2013.68     Document Type: Review

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