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Germinal center dynamics during acute and chronic infection.
Mathematical biosciences and engineering : MBE - 1 Jun 2017
Erwin Samantha, Ciupe Stanca M
Abstract excerpt
The ability of the immune system to clear pathogens is limited during chronic virus infections where potent long-lived plasma and memory B-cells are produced only after germinal center B-cells undergo many rounds of somatic hypermutations. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms of germinal center B-cell formation by developing mathematical models for the dynamics of B-cell somatic hypermutations. We use the...
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