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Thymic B cells from myasthenia gravis patients are activated B cells. Phenotypic and functional analysis.
1 Oct 1990
Abstract excerpt
Thymic cell populations from 12 patients displaying myasthenia gravis were submitted to a phenotypic and functional study. Immunofluorescence analysis of thymic sections revealed the presence in germinal centers of B lymphocytes expressing the B cell markers--CD19, CD21, IgD, or IgM. After T cell and macrophage depletion of thymic single cell suspensions, B cell-enriched populations were isolated. Enriched B...
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