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Antibody Production in a Completely in vitro System

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MANY workers have demonstrated production of antibody in vitro following an initial introduction of the antigen in vivo (see ref. 1 for recent references). The present discussion pertains only to systems in which the first introduction of antigen was in vitro.

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STEVENS, K., McKENNA, J. Antibody Production in a Completely in vitro System. Nature 179, 870–871 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/179870a0

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