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IgE class switching and cellular memory

Nature Immunology volume 13, pages 312–314 (2012)Cite this article

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After class switching in naive B cells, memory B cells and plasma cells that produce immunoglobulin E (IgE+ cells) develop through a germinal-center IgE+ intermediate cell without an IgG1 phase. In addition, cellular IgE memory resides in IgE+ memory B cells, and IgG1+ memory B cells are not an important source of IgE memory.

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Figure 1: A model for the generation of IgE+ memory B cells.

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