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Number of Immunologically Competent Cells and the Type of Immunological Reactions

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THE purpose of the work recorded here was to determine whether, in regard to a given antigen, there exists a qualitative difference between two populations of immunologically competent cells, quantitatively identical, deriving from two types of donors, which have been subjected previously to antigenic stimulation, quantitatively identical, by the same antigen, but at moments when their respective populations in immunologically competent cells were quantitatively different.

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MATHÉ, G., AMIEL, JL. Number of Immunologically Competent Cells and the Type of Immunological Reactions. Nature 206, 202–203 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/206202b0

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