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Abstract
Despite extensive documentation of prolonged antibody responses following vaccination or acute viral infection, the mechanisms behind long-term antibody production are not fully understood. We propose the hypothesis that long-lived plasma cells are an important, yet largely overlooked, component of long-term humoral immunity.Entities:
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Year: 1996 PMID: 8899965 PMCID: PMC7133309 DOI: 10.1016/0966-842X(96)10059-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Microbiol ISSN: 0966-842X Impact factor: 17.079