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An Antigen Depository of the Immune System:

3540590137

3642796036

9783540590132

9783642796036

b573992

An Antigen Depository of the Immune System:

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Follicular Dendritic Cells

edited by Marie H. Kosco-Vilbois.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

1995

(ix, 209 pages 39 illustrations)

Current topics in microbiology and immunology, 201.

List of Contents --; A Theory of Follicular Dendritic Cell Origin --; Follicular Dendritic Cells: Origin and Function --; Mechanism of Immune Complex Trapping by Follicular Dendritic Cells --; Follicular Dendritic Cells: Antigen Retention, B Cell Activation, and Cytokine Production --; Role of Follicular Dendritic Cells in the Regulation of B Cell Proliferation --; Murine Follicular Dendritic Cells: Accessory Activities In Vitro --; Regulation of Human B Cell Activation by Follicular Dendritic Cell and T Cell Signals --; Follicular Dendritic Cells: Structure as Related to Function --; Follicular Dendritic Cells Initiate and Maintain Infection of the Germinal Centers by Human Immunodeficiency Virus --; Follicular Dendritic Cells and Infection by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 --; A Crucial Target Cell and Virus Reservoir --; Follicular Dendritic Cells in Malignant Lymphomas.

This book contains the latest viewpoint on how follicular dendritic cell (FDC) function during normal immune responses as well as in the pathologies associated with HIV infections and lymphomas. Contributions deal with how to isolate and identify FDC both in vivo and in vitro from either human or rodent tissue. Described in detail are most recent research data concerning the role of FDC in B cell growth and differ- entiation. Also discussed are the means by which FDC carry out their cardinal feature, i.e., trapping of immune com- plexes. Finally, the controversial issue of the origin of FDC is presented from two opposing viewpoints. The main bene- fit to the reader is that the book offers the most compre- hensive discussion available about FDC and latest theories concerning this cell and its function in the immune system.

Cytology.

Immunology.

Medicine.

edited by Marie H. Kosco-Vilbois.

Marie H Kosco-Vilbois

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