## Abstract Lymphocytes arc cells that are responsible for processes of specific antigen recognition and for those aspects of the immune response that characterize adaptive immunity. In this respect adaptive immunity can be characterized as antigen‐induced immune __memory__ and __effector__ functio
Lymphocyte growth and maturation factors
✍ Scribed by Eva-Lotta Larsson
- Publisher
- SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 191 KB
- Volume
- 15
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1420-908X
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