Antigen-driven B cell differentiation in vivo.
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Antigen-driven B cell differentiation in vivo
The secretion of specific antibodies and the development of somatically mutated memory B cells in germinal centers are consequences of T cell-dependent challenge with the hapten (4-hydroxy-3-nitrophenyl)acetyl (NP). Using six-parameter flow cytometry and single cell molecular analysis we can directly monitor the extent of somatic hypermutation in individual responsive (isotype switched) antigen...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0022-1007,1540-9538
DOI: 10.1084/jem.178.1.295