Immunoglobulin heavy chain constant regions regulate immunity and tolerance to idiotypes of antibody variable regions
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Immunoglobulin heavy chain constant regions regulate immunity and tolerance to idiotypes of antibody variable regions.
Particular syngeneic adjuvant-free monoclonal antibodies are immunogenic and elicit antibody responses against the variable region idiotypes (Ids). We here study how heavy-chain constant regions (C(H)) regulate immune responses to Ids of free, uncomplexed monoclonal antibodies. To this end, we selected two hybridomas, called Id(3) and Id(A.01), that produce immunogenic IgM(lambda)2 directed tow...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.052150899