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- Title
Extrafollicular antibody responses.
- Authors
MacLennan, Ian C. M.; Toellner, Kai-Michael; Cunningham, Adam F.; Serre, Karine; Sze, Daniel M.-Y.; Zúñiga, Elina; Cook, Matthew C.; Vinuesa, Carola G.
- Abstract
Summary: In adaptive antibody responses, B cells are induced to grow either in follicles where they form germinal centers or in extrafollicular foci as plasmablasts. Extrafollicular growth typically occurs in the medullary cords of lymph nodes and in foci in the red pulp of the spleen. It is not a feature of secondary lymphoid tissue associated with the internal epithelia of the body. All types of naïve and memory B cells can be recruited into extrafollicular responses. These responses are associated with immunoglobulin class switching but, at the most, only low-level hypermutation.
- Subjects
IMMUNOGLOBULINS; B cells; LYMPH nodes; LYMPHOID tissue; SPLEEN
- Publication
Immunological Reviews, 2003, Vol 194, Issue 1, p8
- ISSN
0105-2896
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1034/j.1600-065X.2003.00058.x