Dear Ted,
I am not sure wether you received my first reply , but anyway...
I thought that it is not a matter of "different" b-cells, but a
age-dependent process:
After becoming antibody secreting cells, a few of those do not undergo
apotosis, but become memory cells !
You can find further information in "Immunology" by Janeway and Travers,
easy to red, but very competent ---
Greetings
Felix
Munich, Germany
Ted Ertl <ertlt at GORT.CANISIUS.EDU> schrieb im Beitrag
<336DD053.4869 at gort.canisius.edu>...
> Why do some antigen-stimulated B cells differentiate into
> antibody-secreting cells with brief life spans and others are long-lived
> memory cells?
>
