Immune functions encoded by the natural killer gene complex

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 304-316

  Yokoyama, Wayne M ^a   Plougastel, Beatrice F M ^a  

^a BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CELL FUNCTION; CELL KILLING; GENETIC CODE; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASM; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; LIGAND;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIGANDS; MICE; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASMS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 0038316337     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1055     Document Type: Review

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