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Fall 2022
Affinity maturation is the process to improve antibody affinity for an antigen during an adaptive immune response; it is mediated by the immunoglobulin mutator enzyme activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). This process is crucial to produce high-affinity memory B-cells and plasma cells. In...
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Examining the Effects of Cytoplasmic Tail Splicing Event in Goldfish (Carassius auratus) Leukocyte Immune-type receptors
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The innate immune system is important in clearing infections and maintaining homeostasis. Across vertebrates, innate immunity is capable of executing potent effector responses through the actions of highly specialized cells. Effector responses, such as phagocytosis and cytokine secretion, are...
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Fall 2017
Since antiquity, fever has been documented as a physiological response to infection characterized by an increase in body temperature. Though fever is commonly regarded as a deleterious symptom of inflammation and is often suppressed using NSAID drugs, little is known about the effects that fever...