Superantigens
Subtitle: Molecular Biology, Immunology, and Relevance to Human Disease
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: CRC
Published: January 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 624
ISBN-13: 9780824798130
Subjects: Bacteriology; Molecular biology; Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell; Infectious Diseases; Medical Immunology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; physiology; Medical / Immunology; Immunology; Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell; Superantigens
First sentence: The term "superantigen" was first used by Kappler and Marrack and their co-workers in 1989 to describe the massive T-cell-receptor (TCR) V-restricted primary response to bacterial toxins (1).