Fundamental roles of the innate-like repertoire of natural antibodies in immune homeostasis

The composition of the early immune repertoire is biased with prominent expression of spontaneously arising B-cell clones that produce IgM with recurrent and often autoreactive binding specificities. Amongst these naturally-arising antibodies (NAbs) are IgM antibodies that specifically recognize dam...

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Main Authors: Jaya eVas, Caroline eGrönwall, Gregg eSilverman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Immunology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fimmu.2013.00004/full