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Immunoglobulin VH gene expression in human aging.
Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) - 1 Nov 1999
Wang X, Stollar B D
Abstract excerpt
Immune responses change in aging humans, but it is not known whether there is an age-associated change in the expressed B cell repertoire. We compared Ig VH cDNA libraries from circulating B cells of five elderly and three young human adults. As in young persons, nearly two-thirds of the cDNA clones from older subjects had zero to three V(H) mutations, although there was more individual variation among the...
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