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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
SUBMITTER: Masaki Hikida
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-4535 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20061001 8
Follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) have been shown to play a crucial role in the positive selection of high-affinity B cells that are generated by somatic hypermutation in germinal center (GC). Because of technical difficulties in preparing and maintaining pure FDCs, a role for FDCs in this complicated process has not been fully elucidated. In this study, we established a cell line designated as pFL that retained major FDC phenotypes from a three-dimensional culture of mouse lymph node cells. pFL ...[more]