Identification of four subsets of human CD3- CD16+ Natural Killer (NK) cells by the expression of clonally distributed functional surface molecules: Correlation between subset assignment of NK clones and ability to mediate specific alloantigen recognition

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 1990, Pages 1589-1598

  Moretta, Alessandro ^a   Bottino, Cristina ^b   Pende, Daniela ^b   Tripodi, Gino ^b   Tambussi, Giuseppe ^b   Viale, Oriane ^b   Orengo, Annamaria ^a   Barbaresi, Maurizio ^b   Merli, Annalisa ^b   Ciccone, Ermanno ^b   Moretta, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMAL; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION, T-LYMPHOCYTE; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; CLONE CELLS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; HUMAN; ISOANTIGENS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, FC; RECEPTORS, IGG; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0025677333     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.172.6.1589     Document Type: Article

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