ISPE Glossary of Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Terminology

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B Cell

A type of lymphocyte (B lymphocyte) produced and matured in the bone marrow, and normally involved in the production of antibodies to combat infection. During infections, individual b-cell clones multiply and are transformed into plasma cells, which produce large amounts of antibodies against a particular antigen on a foreign microbe.

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