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Overview of attention for article published in BMC Immunology, January 2005
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BMC Immunology, January 2005
DOI 10.1186/1471-2172-6-8
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Andrew R Ferguson, Ronald B Corley

Abstract

Marginal zone (MZ) B cells play important roles in the early phases of humoral immune responses. In addition to possessing an inherent capacity to rapidly differentiate into antibody secreting cells, MZ B cells also help to regulate the fate of both T-independent and T-dependent blood-borne antigens in the spleen. For T-dependent antigens, MZ B cells bind IgM-antigen complexes in a complement-dependent manner. Once MZ B cells bind IgM-containing immune complexes (IgM-IC), they transport them into B cell follicles for deposition onto follicular dendritic cells (FDCs), an important component of secreted IgM's ability to enhance adaptive immune responses. To further define the requirement for MZ B cells in IgM-IC deposition, mice deficient in the NF-kappaB protein p50, which have been reported to lack MZ B cells, were analyzed for their ability to trap IgM-IC onto FDCs.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Taiwan 1 5%
Unknown 20 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 33%
Student > Postgraduate 3 14%
Researcher 2 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 1 5%
Student > Bachelor 1 5%
Other 6 29%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 43%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 19%
Immunology and Microbiology 2 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 10%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 1 5%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 May 2014.
All research outputs
#7,453,479
of 22,786,691 outputs
Outputs from BMC Immunology
#138
of 585 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#36,000
of 139,633 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Immunology
#3
of 6 outputs
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