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SUBMITTER: Bortnick A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4341991 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bortnick Alexandra A Chernova Irene I Quinn William J WJ Mugnier Monica M Cancro Michael P MP Allman David D
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20120423 11
The signals required to generate long-lived plasma cells remain unresolved. One widely cited model posits that long-lived plasma cells derive from germinal centers (GCs) in response to T cell-dependent (TD) Ags. Thus, T cell-independent (TI) Ags, which fail to sustain GCs, are considered ineffective at generating long-lived plasma cells. However, we show that long-lived hapten-specific plasma cells are readily induced without formation of GCs. Long-lived plasma cells developed in T cell-deficien ...[more]