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B-cell/T-cell interaction

Rick Bright rbright at rmy.emory.edu
Fri Aug 27 11:56:22 EST 1999


You are quoting matzinger?

viggo wrote:
> 
> I don't know about the detachment but isn't it so that a B-cell cannot turn
> on naive T cells as only a dendritic cell can do this (Fuchs EJ et al.
> Science (1992) vol 258: 1156-1159)? According to Matzinger, B-cells induce
> tolerance in naive T cells...
> 
> James Good wrote in message ...
> >
> >After a B-cell has taken up antigen, processed it, acquired costimulatory
> >ability and activated a naive T-cell, can that same T-cell, while still
> >bound to the B-cell, induce proliferation and class switching? Or must the
> >T-cell detach and another, at a later stage, give T-cell help?



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