Germinal centers: A second childhood for lymphocytes

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Tarlinton, D

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CURRENT BIOLOGY | 1997年 / 7卷 / 03期

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10.1016/S0960-9822(97)70077-0

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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];

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071010 ; 081704 ;

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Recent observations show that, in the peripheral lymphoid organs known as germinal centers, lymphocytes appear to regain the phenotypic and molecular traits of immature cells; this cellular regression may play an important role in the affinity maturation of immune responses.

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