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UAB researchers discover antibody receptor identity, propose renaming immune-system gene
In what has eluded discovery for 30 years, scientists have identified a cellular receptor for the immune system's first-response antibody immunoglobulin M (IgM). The proposed name is the Fc mu receptor gene; it describes a key region of the IgM antibody ...
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University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday, November 20, 2009