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Development of the antibody repertoire in rabbit: gut-associated lymphoid tissue, microbes, and selection.
Immunological reviews - 1 Jun 2000
Lanning D, Zhu X, Zhai S K, Knight K L
Abstract excerpt
Rabbits generate their antibody repertoire in three stages. First, a neonatal repertoire is generated by B lymphopoiesis in fetal liver and bone marrow and is limited by preferential V(H) gene segment usage. Between 4 and 8 weeks after birth a complex primary antibody repertoire is developed by somatically diversifying the neonatal repertoire through somatic hypermutation and a somatic gene conversion-like...
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