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Selection of natural autoreactive B cells.
Clinical and experimental rheumatology - 1 Jan 2000
Hardy Richard R, Hayakawa Kyoko
Abstract excerpt
Natural antibodies produced by CD5+ B1 B cells include anti-thymocyte autoantibody (ATA). Transgenic mice bearing the Ig-μ heavy chain of a prototypic ATA, V(H)3609Vκ21c, demonstrated a critical requirement for self-antigen in the accumulation of ATA B cells and production of high levels of serum ATA. Further work with ATA-μκ transgenic mice revealed that, while development of most B cells were blocked at an...
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