Antibodies Given Orally in the Neonatal Period Can Affect the Immune Response for Two Generations: Evidence for Active Maternal Influence on the Newborn's Immune System

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Summary

The results demonstrate that by giving monoclonal antibodies idiotypically connected to a single bacterial component to neonatal rats, one profoundly influence the immune response also to other—spatially related—bacterial antigens in their offsprings.

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article
Published
1999-12-01
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Keywords

Immune system, Antigen, Ovalbumin, Antibody, Biology

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