Selecting B cells and plasma cells to memory
Open Access
- 21 February 2005
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 201 (4), 497-499
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20050218
Abstract
Humoral immunity appears to be based on immunological memory provided by memory plasma cells, which secrete protective antibodies, and memory B cells, which react to antigen challenge by differentiating into plasma cells. How these differentiation pathways relate to each other, how cells are selected into these memory populations, and how these populations are maintained remains enigmatic.Keywords
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