The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 120, 1041-1049,
Copyright © 1964 by The Rockefeller Institute
STUDIES ON ANTIBODY PRODUCTION
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XI. VARIATION IN THE SECONDARY RESPONSE AS A FUNCTION OF THE LENGTH OF THE INTERVAL BETWEEN TWO ANTIGENIC STIMULI
Alfonz I. Fecsik M.D.1,
William T. Butler M.D.1, and
Albert H. Coons M.D.1
1 From the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston
As the interval between two antigenic stimuli to mice is lengthened, the magnitude of the response to the second dose increases up to approximately 40 days; thereafter it remains at a fairly constant, high level.
Submitted on July 27, 1964