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Antigen-receptor degeneracy and immunological paradigms
- Source :
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Molecular Immunology . Feb2004, Vol. 40 Issue 14/15, p993. 4p. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- This paper discusses some consequences of the discovery that antigen receptors are degenerate: Immune specificity, in contrast to the tenets of the clonal selection paradigm, must be generated by the immune response down-stream of initial antigen recognition; and specificity is a property of a collective of cells and not of single clones. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- *IMMUNE response
*ANTIGENS
*MOLECULAR cloning
*IMMUNOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01615890
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 14/15
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Molecular Immunology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12244309
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2003.11.020