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re real function, naive bcells

David Peritt Peritt_d at a1.mscf.upenn.edu
Fri Jun 9 07:52:38 EST 1995


In article <3r8fgj$mdl at jhunix1.hcf.jhu.edu> Ephraim Fuchs,
ejf at welchlink.uoregon.edu writes:
>My proposal is that under no circumstances can a B cell activate a naive 
>T cell to become an effector cell, and that the consequence of a B cell 
>presenting antigen to a naive T cell specific for that antigen is
tolerance.

Is this true at the inflammatory site where there is plenty of 2nd signal
around to activate the T cell while it is seeing the idiotypic peptide?



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