• Thumbnail for Germinal center
    Germinal centers or germinal centres (GCs) are transiently formed structures within B cell zone (follicles) in secondary lymphoid organs – lymph nodes...
    22 KB (2,792 words) - 06:20, 3 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lupus
    to the tolerization of B cells and T cells. Dendritic cells in the germinal center may endocytose such antigenic material and present it to T cells, activating...
    129 KB (14,190 words) - 06:36, 19 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Memory B cell
    forms part of the adaptive immune system. These cells develop within germinal centers of the secondary lymphoid organs. Memory B cells circulate in the blood...
    24 KB (3,168 words) - 14:40, 30 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for B cell
    affinity maturation in the germinal center (GC) and produce more antibodies. Plasma cells typically result from the germinal center reaction from T cell-dependent...
    32 KB (3,746 words) - 03:26, 2 November 2024
  • to therapies in different ways. Germinal Center B-Cell like (GCB) DLBCLs appear to arise from normal germinal center B cells, while Activated B-cell like...
    20 KB (2,453 words) - 10:36, 1 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Follicular B helper T cells
    into these seeded germinal centers, predominantly composed of rapidly dividing B cells mutating their Ig genes. Within germinal centers, TFH cells play...
    16 KB (1,936 words) - 01:42, 16 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Burkitt lymphoma
    cancer of the lymphatic system, particularly B lymphocytes found in the germinal center. It is named after Denis Parsons Burkitt, the Irish surgeon who first...
    38 KB (4,416 words) - 08:01, 25 August 2024
  • Look up Germinal in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Germinal may refer to: Germinal (French Republican Calendar), the seventh month of the calendar, approximately...
    1 KB (192 words) - 03:20, 24 July 2021
  • Thumbnail for Follicular lymphoma
    follicles (nodular swirls of various types of lymphocytes) in the germinal centers of lymphoid tissues such as lymph nodes. The cancerous cells in FL...
    67 KB (7,967 words) - 13:33, 14 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hashimoto's thyroiditis
    thyrocyte-associated tissues often leads to the histologically significant finding of germinal center development within the thyroid gland.[citation needed] Hashimoto's...
    72 KB (7,888 words) - 02:12, 28 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centroblast
    proliferating in the germinal center of a lymphoid follicle. They are specifically located in the dark zone of the germinal center. Centroblasts form from...
    6 KB (638 words) - 20:33, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tingible body macrophage
    body macrophage (TBM) is a type of macrophage predominantly found in germinal centers of lymph nodes. They contain many phagocytized, apoptotic cells in...
    3 KB (299 words) - 17:40, 14 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Reed–Sternberg cell
    usually derived from B lymphocytes, classically considered crippled germinal center B cells. In the vast majority of cases, the immunoglobulin genes of...
    6 KB (696 words) - 16:23, 14 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Progressive transformation of germinal centres
    R, Bradlow B, Platanias LC (2002). "Progressive transformation of germinal centers. Report of 2 cases and review of the literature". Acta Haematol. 108...
    3 KB (242 words) - 14:10, 14 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Castleman disease
    follicles with large hyperplastic germinal centers and sheetlike plasmacytosis (increased number plasma cells). Germinal centers may also show regressed features...
    23 KB (2,400 words) - 11:30, 31 August 2024
  • that accompany it, including: Th2 activation and cytokine production, germinal center formation and isotype switching, and affinity maturation and memory...
    17 KB (1,673 words) - 14:02, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Antibody
    (classically described as arising extrafollicularly rather than from the germinal center) which have the potential to differentiate further into plasma cells...
    121 KB (13,516 words) - 08:01, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Warthin's tumor
    cystic tumor of the salivary glands containing abundant lymphocytes and germinal centers (lymph node-like stroma). It is named for pathologist Aldred Scott...
    7 KB (686 words) - 21:23, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Plasma cell
    activated B cell begins to differentiate into more specialized cells. Germinal center B cells may differentiate into memory B cells or plasma cells. Most...
    24 KB (2,793 words) - 18:41, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lymphatic system
    Besides, TLOs that with an active germinal center seem to show a better prognosis than those with TLOs without a germinal center. The reason that these patients...
    60 KB (6,951 words) - 12:43, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mantle cell lymphoma
    CD5 positive antigen-naive pregerminal center B-cell within the mantle zone that surrounds normal germinal center follicles. MCL cells generally over-express...
    41 KB (4,549 words) - 08:59, 25 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Follicular dendritic cells
    capturing antigen to support B cell, promoting debris removal from germinal centers, and protecting against autoimmunity. Disease processes that FDC may...
    16 KB (1,896 words) - 15:59, 6 April 2024
  • Affinity maturation primarily occurs on membrane immunoglobulin of germinal center B cells and as a direct result of somatic hypermutation (SHM) and selection...
    4 KB (524 words) - 13:55, 10 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tonsil
    cells are activated and proliferate in areas called germinal centers in the tonsil. These germinal centers are places where B memory cells are created and...
    10 KB (958 words) - 19:22, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Centrocyte
    lymphoma. Centrocytes are B cells that are found in the light zones of germinal centers. Centrocytes are the non-dividing progeny of centroblasts, and although...
    5 KB (471 words) - 20:35, 20 July 2024
  • Institute in the United Kingdom, where she researches the biology of the germinal center response after immunisation and infection. Linterman was born in Christchurch...
    8 KB (912 words) - 15:27, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Follicular hyperplasia
    Toxoplasmosis Syphilis Castleman disease Progressive transformation of germinal centers (PTGC) Microorganisms can infect lymph nodes by causing pain and inflammation...
    19 KB (2,205 words) - 03:58, 23 September 2023
  • histiocytic-dendritic disorders. In the "germinal center model" for the normal maturation of B cells, naive B cells enter the germinal centers of lymph nodes and other...
    140 KB (16,977 words) - 09:07, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neprilysin
    found on non-T ALL cells, which derive from pre-B lymphocytes, and in germinal center-related non-Hodgkin lymphoma such as Burkitt lymphoma and follicular...
    23 KB (2,581 words) - 06:57, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for BCL6
    allows for germinal center development and leads to B cell proliferation. The deletion of BCL6 is known to lead to failure of germinal center formation...
    20 KB (2,414 words) - 11:10, 15 July 2024