NK-like activity against allogeneic tumour cells demonstrated in the spleen of control and thymectomized Xenopus

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 365-373

  Horton, Trudy L ^a   Ritchie, Pamela ^a   Watson, Martin D ^a   Horton, John D ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Natural cytotoxicity; NK like cells; Spleen; Thymectomy; Tumour cells; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL DESTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; SPLEEN; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMECTOMY; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0029744148     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1996.64     Document Type: Article

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