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Rotavirus-specific CD5+ B cells in young children exhibit a distinct antibody repertoire compared with CD5- B cells.
Human immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Weitkamp Jörn-Hendrik, Lafleur Bonnie J, Crowe James E
Abstract excerpt
Antiviral antibody responses in infants are limited in quality. One reason for this finding could be that the majority of B cells in infants are CD5+ cells, a subset of B cells that is thought to contain cells expressing polyreactive, low-affinity B cell receptors. We analyzed the rotavirus (RV)-specific antibody heavy chain variable region (VH) repertoire in CD5+ and CD5- B cells of four RV-infected children...
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