Dynamics of One-pass Germinal Center Mod
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Mihaela Oprea; Erik van Nimwegen; Alan S. Perelson
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Article
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2000
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Springer
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English
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During an immune response, the affinity of antibodies that react with the antigen that triggered the response increases with time, a phenomenon known as affinity maturation. The molecular basis of affinity maturation has been partially elucidated. It involves the somatic mutation of immunoglobulin V