Immunological memory
β Scribed by Jonathan Sprent
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 890 KB
- Volume
- 9
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-7915
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β¦ Synopsis
Most of the antigen-specific T and B cells participating in the primary immune response are rapidly eliminated, but some of the cells survive and become long-lived memory cells. There have been a number of recent developments on the features and functions of memory cells.
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