Clonal expansion is the process where antigen-specific lymphocytes multiply after encountering an antigen, before becoming effector cells. This step is crucial for adaptive immunity, enabling a sufficient number of specific immune cells to fight off a pathogen.
La proliferación de linfocitos específicos de antígeno en respuesta a la estimulación antigénica que precede a su diferenciación en células efectoras. Es un paso esencial en la inmunidad adaptativa, que permite que las células raras específicas de antígeno aumenten en número para que puedan combatir eficazmente el patógeno que provocó la respuesta.
| Front | The proliferation of antigen-specific lymphocytes in response to antigenic stimulation that precedes their differentiation into effector cells. It is an essential step in adaptive immunity, allowing rare antigen-specific cells to increase in number so that they can effectively combat the pathogen that elicited the response |
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| Back | clonal expansion |
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