Humoral Immune Responses to Various Antigens in the Asterids: A. gibbosa and A. rubens
- 1 Universite d’Orleans, France
Abstract
Immunizations with various antigens of the sea stars Asterina gibbosa and Asterias rubens produce specific humoral immune reactions which initiate the antibody factor. This antibody factor is correlated with kappa genes and could be composed of 4 kappa chains. It is the first time that such phenomenom was described in an invertebrate.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajisp.2012.196.199
Copyright: © 2012 Michel Leclerc. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Keywords
- Invertebrate
- Immunogenesis
- Phylogenesis
- Sea-Star
- Model
- Echinoderma