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Question about antigen functioning

Adriano Simoes adriano.simoes at usa.net
Wed Jul 14 16:45:41 EST 1999


    Now it's me who's getting confused ...

> Analagously, the cellular immune resposne may be thought of in terms of
> individual T-cell responses and the overall response comprised of all
T-cell
> clones reactive with the antigen.

yes,ok - that's possible but what's the advantage of that ???


> As with the overall polyclonal humoral resposne, the overall polyclonal
> T-cell response may retain the sense of the the antigen's four dimensional
> space-time to which you alluded.

antigen's four dimensional space-time sence ??? ... didn't get that at all.
I'd be grateful if you could have the kindness of explaning that to me.
Cheers,
 Adriano Simoes

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Francisco Adriano Simões, biotechnology student
 at the University of Algarve - Portugal
[ adriano.simoes at usa.net ]
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