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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Peng Yue
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-18377 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Burington Bart B Yue Peng P Shi Xiaoyan X Advani Ranjana R Lau Jeffrey T JT Tan Jenille J Stinson Susanna S Stinson Jeremy J Januario Thomas T de Vos Sven S Ansell Stephen S Forero-Torres Andres A Fedorowicz Grazyna G Yang Teddy T C TT Elkins Kristi K Du Changchun C Mohan Sankar S Yu Nancy N Modrusan Zora Z Seshagiri Somasekar S Yu Shang-Fan SF Pandita Ajay A Koeppen Hartmut H French Dorothy D Polson Andrew G AG Offringa Rienk R Whiting Nancy N Ebens Allen A Dornan David D
Science translational medicine 20110301 74
The primary function of B cells, critical components of the adaptive immune response, is to produce antibodies against foreign antigens, as well as to perform isotype class switching, which changes the heavy chain of an antibody so that it can interact with different repertoires of effector cells. CD40 is a member of the tumor necrosis factor superfamily of cell surface receptors that transmits survival signals to B cells. In contrast, in B cell cancers, stimulation of CD40 signaling results in ...[more]