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Maintenance of immunological memory: a role for CD5+ B cells?
Immunology today - 1 Dec 1991
UytdeHaag F, van der Heijden R, Osterhaus A
Abstract excerpt
How memory is retained is an immunological mystery. One possibility, argued here by Fons UytdeHaag and colleagues, is that memory is imprinted in the somatically-mutated Ig expressed by certain CD5+ B cells. The theory proposes that the Ig expressed by this self-renewing population acts as surrogate antigen, selecting and stimulating emerging antigen-specific lymphocytes.
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