Promiscuity and the single receptor: NKG2D

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 737-744

  Eagle, Robert A ^a   Trowsdale, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D;

AUTOIMMUNITY; CANCER; CELL STRESS; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOREGULATION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIGANDS; MICE; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34548247599     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2144     Document Type: Review

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