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. 1985 Jul;61(1):189–194.

Defective low-density cells of dendritic morphology from the blood of patients with common variable hypogammaglobulinaemia: low immunoglobulin production on stimulation of normal B cells.

J Farrant, A E Bryant, A M Lever, A J Edwards, S C Knight, A D Webster
PMCID: PMC1577236  PMID: 3876180

Abstract

Low-density cells (LDC) of dendritic morphology from the blood of patients with common variable (late-onset) hypogammaglobulinaemia (CVH) did not induce allogeneic immunoglobulin production by normal B cells unlike LDC from normal blood. When LDC from patients were treated with pokeweed mitogen (PWM), a lower allogeneic secretion of IgM and IgG was induced in normal B cells than that induced by allogeneic normal LDC treated with PWM. B cells from hypogammaglobulinaemic patients were non-responsive to both normal and patient LDC treated with PWM under all conditions tested.

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