Why the immune system takes its chances with randomness

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 711-

  Hodgkin, Philip D ^a,b   Dowling, Mark R ^a,b   Duffy, Ken R ^c  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASYMMETRIC CELL DIVISION; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IN VITRO STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTES; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL;

EID: 84921731718     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3734-c1     Document Type: Article

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