In vivo survival and homeostatic proliferation of natural killer cells

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 197, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 967-976

  Prlic, Martin ^a   Blazar, Bruce R ^a,b   Farrar, Michael A ^a,b   Jameson, Stephen C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytokines; Homeostasis; IL 15; Lymphopenia

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15; INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KINETICS; CELL MATURATION; CELL POPULATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HOMEOSTASIS; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURVIVAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MACROPHAGE-1 ANTIGEN; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-15; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; SPLEEN;

EID: 0037460067     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20021847     Document Type: Article

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