The discovery that antibodies to a bacterial antigen can cross-react with a mammalian protein to cause pauci-immune necrotizing and crescentic glomerulonephritis opens up new possibilities for the ...

Not all antigens insert themselves into a cell membrane ... direct or indirect recognition of carbohydrate patterns, bacterial structures, apoptotic cells and debris associated with cell damage ...

These include the types of antigens recognized by each subset and their roles as antibody producers and ... developmental origins and functions of the B cells and auxiliary cells that participate in ...

These studies focus on T cells that either mediate or prevent disease, particularly those that are reactive to enteric bacterial antigens. The ultimate aim is to understand the cellular and cytokine ...

Medically reviewed by Doru Paul, MD CD20 is a CD marker—a molecule on the cell surface that can be used to identify and type ...