On the function of pit cells, the liver-specific natural killer cells

Seminars in Liver Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 265-286

  Wisse, Eddie ^a   Luo, Dianzhong ^a   Vermijlen, David ^a   Kanellopoulou, Chryssa ^a   De Zanger, Ronald ^a   Braet, Filip ^a  

^a Lab for Cell Biology and Histology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Kupffer cell; Liver; Natural killer cell; NK cell; Pit cell

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE MODIFIER; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CYTOKINE; FREE RADICAL; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CYTOTOXICITY; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; KUPFFER CELL; LARGE GRANULAR LYMPHOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE ADHERENCE; LIVER CELL; LIVER METASTASIS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOKINE ACTIVATED KILLER CELL; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW; TISSUE SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELL DESTRUCTION; VIRUS HEPATITIS;

EID: 0030692816     PISSN: 02728087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-1007204     Document Type: Review

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