Natural killer cells, viruses and cancer

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-49

  Cerwenka, Adelheid ^a   Lanier, Lewis L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; NATURAL KILLER CELL ACTIVATING RECEPTORS;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HERPES VIRUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NEOPLASM; REVIEW; VIRUS; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; HERPESVIRIDAE; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; VIRUS DISEASES; VIRUSES;

EID: 0035496603     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35095564     Document Type: Review

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