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No receptor stands alone: IgG B-cell receptor intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms contribute to antibody memory
20 May 2014
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Acquired immunological memory is a striking phenomenon. A lethal epidemic sweeps through a naïve population, many die but those who survive are never "attacked twice - never at least fatally", as the historian Thucydides observed in 430 BCE. Antibody memory is critical for protection against many human infectious diseases and is the basis for nearly all current human vaccines. Antibody memory is encoded, in part,...
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