Life Sciences
New life sciences study findings have been reported by researchers at Geneva University
Published in Hospital Law Weekly, September 18th, 2008
Current study results from the report, 'APRIL secreted by neutrophils binds to heparan sulfate proteoglycans to create plasma cell niches in human mucosa,' have been published. "The bone marrow constitutes a favorable environment for long-lived antibody-secreting plasma cells, providing blood-circulating antibody. Plasma cells are also present in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) to mediate local frontline immunity, but how plasma cell survival there is regulated is not known," scientists in Geneva, Switzerland report.
"Here we report that a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL) promoted survival of human upper and lower MALT plasma cells by upregulating...
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