Delivering the kiss of death

Nature Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 399-403

  Trambas, Christina M ^a   Griffiths, Gillian M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERFORIN; RAB PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; CELL DEATH; CELL SECRETION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DOWN REGULATION; GENETIC DISORDER; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE;

ANIMALS; CHEDIAK-HIGASHI SYNDROME; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HERMANSKI-PUDLAK SYNDROME; HISTIOCYTOSIS, NON-LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MICE; MUTATION; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0038731186     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni0503-399     Document Type: Review

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