[In contrast to the functional, rheumatoid factor-secreting CD27(+)CD21(high) subset, the CD27(+)CD21(low) subpopulation exhibits decreased calcium mobilization and does not efficiently differentiate into rheumatoid factor-secreting plasmablasts, suggesting that a large proportion of HCV(+)MC(+) patients' clonally expanded peripheral B cells is prone to anergy and/or apoptosis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE