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Relative Rates of Synthesis of Immunoglobulins and Light Chains in Rabbit Spleen Cells during Secondary Response

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LYMPH node cells of immunized rabbit have been shown to produce not only whole molecules of immunoglobulins (Ig), but also an excess of L-chains1–3. Other data suggest a small pool of light chains with a rapid turnover4. Rabbit spleen cells have also been found to synthesize a micro-globulin with antigenic determinants of both light and heavy chains in vitro2,3.

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SKVORTSOV, V., GURVICH, A. Relative Rates of Synthesis of Immunoglobulins and Light Chains in Rabbit Spleen Cells during Secondary Response. Nature 218, 377–378 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218377a0

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