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Plasma cells are specialised immune cells that play an important role in our body’s immune response by producing antibodies against antigens e.g. on bacteria and viruses. They develop from B lymphocytes, commonly known as B cells, arising from the lymphoid cell line.
The following section describes in detail the process of B cell and plasma cell development.