Specialization and complementation of humoral immune responses to infection
By: Tim Manser, editor.
Contributors: Manser, Tim.
Series: Current topics in microbiology and immunology -- 319
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9783540738992; 9783540739005
Subjects: Immune System -- physiology; Antibody Formation -- immunology; B-Lymphocytes -- immunology; Complement System Proteins -- immunology; Immunology; Complement (Immunology); B cells
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pattern recognition by B cells: the role of antigen repetitiveness versus toll-like receptors; title: The multifunctional role of antibodies in the protective resonse to bacterial T cell-independent antigens; title: The important anddiverse roles of antibodies in the host response to Borrelia infections; title: A distinct role for B1b lymphocytes in T cell-independent immunity; title: Secretory immunity following mutans streptococcal infection or immunization.