Memory B cells

T Kurosaki, K Kometani, W Ise - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
The immune system can remember a previously experienced pathogen and can evoke an
enhanced response to reinfection that depends on memory lymphocyte populations. Recent …

Extrahepatic morbidity and mortality of chronic hepatitis C

F Negro, D Forton, A Craxì, MS Sulkowski, JJ Feld… - Gastroenterology, 2015 - Elsevier
Chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is associated with several extrahepatic
manifestations. Patients with HCV may develop mixed cryoglobulinemia and its sequelae …

Comprehensive mapping of immune perturbations associated with severe COVID-19

L Kuri-Cervantes, MB Pampena, W Meng… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Although critical illness has been associated with SARS-CoV-2–induced hyperinflammation,
the immune correlates of severe COVID-19 remain unclear. Here, we comprehensively …

[HTML][HTML] Atypical B cells are part of an alternative lineage of B cells that participates in responses to vaccination and infection in humans

HJ Sutton, R Aye, AH Idris, R Vistein, E Nduati, O Kai… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
The diversity of circulating human B cells is unknown. We use single-cell RNA sequencing
(RNA-seq) to examine the diversity of both antigen-specific and total B cells in healthy …

What are the benefits of a sustained virologic response to direct-acting antiviral therapy for hepatitis C virus infection?

GN Ioannou, JJ Feld - Gastroenterology, 2019 - Elsevier
Direct-acting antiviral (DAA) regimens are safe and effective at eradicating hepatitis C virus
(HCV) infection. Unfortunately, DAAs remain expensive, so treatment of all HCV-infected …

Memory B cells of mice and humans

F Weisel, M Shlomchik - Annual review of immunology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
We comprehensively review memory B cells (MBCs), covering the definition of MBCs and
their identities and subsets, how MBCs are generated, where they are localized, how they …

Low CD21 expression defines a population of recent germinal center graduates primed for plasma cell differentiation

D Lau, LYL Lan, SF Andrews, C Henry, KT Rojas… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
In this study, we report that antigen-specific CD19+ CD27+ CD21lo (CD21lo) B cells are
transiently induced 14 to 28 days after immunization, at the time germinal centers (GCs) …

Atypical memory B cells in human chronic infectious diseases: An interim report

S Portugal, N Obeng-Adjei, S Moir, PD Crompton… - Cellular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Immunological memory is a remarkable phenomenon in which survival of an initial infection
by a pathogen leads to life-long protection from disease upon subsequent exposure to that …

Zeb2 drives the formation of CD11c+ atypical B cells to sustain germinal centers that control persistent infection

X Gao, Q Shen, JA Roco, B Dalton, K Frith… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
CD11c+ atypical B cells (ABCs) are an alternative memory B cell lineage associated with
immunization, infection, and autoimmunity. However, the factors that drive the transcriptional …

Cryoglobulinemia: an update in 2019

AC Desbois, P Cacoub, D Saadoun - Joint bone spine, 2019 - Elsevier
Cryoglobulinemia is defined as the persistent presence in serum of abnormal
immunoglobulins (Igs) that precipitate at low temperatures and dissolve again upon …