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mit the information they’ve gathered concerning the enemy to the spleen
and lymph glands (Figure 120).
When the lymph glands are reached, B cells that have awaited their
call to duty are set in motion thanks to this information. After being pro-
duced in the bone marrow, B cells travel to the lymph glands to await the

call to action (Figure 121).
The awakened B cells go through a number of stages. Every stimu-
Figures 120 and 121.
The information about the enemy collected by the
helper T-cells is sent to the lymph glands, where
waiting B cells go into action.

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