Reading an immunology textbook from 1997

What is going to be out of date?

The text suggests that no one has any idea what Immunoglobulin D does, has this changed?

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Treczoks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d (1 reply)

How about reading the article on Wikipedia?

andros_rex@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8d

I did, but the explanation didn’t really go to the level I was hoping. Some of that of course is that it don’t have formal organic chemistry or microbiology background to really be getting the most of random medical textbooks, but I think I’m mostly getting what the book is saying. What I’m getting from the Wiki is that it’s connected to IgM, but it’s still mostly mysterious? Why was it hard to figure out that it activated B cells?

This is what the book has:

I guess I’m interested in the progress of science here/any practical ramifications from research into IgD in the past twenty years.