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The chicken B-cell receptor complex and its role in avian B-cell development.
Immunological reviews - 1 Jun 2000
Sayegh C E, Demaries S L, Pike K A, Friedman J E, Ratcliffe M J
Abstract excerpt
The bursa of Fabricius is critical to normal B-lymphocyte development in birds. During embryonic life, B-cell precursors migrate to the bursal rudiment and those which have undergone productive V(D)J recombination colonize lymphoid follicles and undergo immunoglobulin V gene diversification by gene conversion. The chicken surface IgM complex appears structurally and functionally equivalent to its mammalian...
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