Perpetuation of immunological memory: role of serum antibodies and accessory cells.

Nayak, Rabindranath and Lal, Girdhari and Shaila, MS (2005) Perpetuation of immunological memory: role of serum antibodies and accessory cells. In: Microbes and Infection, 7 (11-12). pp. 1276-1283.

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Abstract

A self-sustaining mechanism for perpetuation of immunological memory is proposed which requires the involvement of idiotypic-anti-idiotypic antibody immune-complexes, antigen-presenting cells and follicular dendritic cells, but not long-lived memory cells or persisting antigens.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Microbes and Infection
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier.
Keywords:	Immunological memory;Serum antibodies;Dendritic cells;Follicular dendritic cells
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:12
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/89

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