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Diversified bursal medullary B cells survive and expand independently after depletion following neonatal infectious bursal disease virus infection
20 Feb 2006
Abstract excerpt
The primary immunoglobulin repertoire of chickens is generated not by gene rearrangement but by a subsequent process of gene conversion in proliferating immature B cells within the follicles of a specialized gut-associated lymphoid organ, the bursa of Fabricius. Neonatal infection with infectious bursal disease virus can eliminate almost the entire bursal B-cell compartment. Thereafter, two types of follicle...
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