Mistaken notions about natural killer cells

Nature Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 481-485

  Yokoyama, Wayne M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CD94 ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2A;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CLONAL ANERGY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOTOXICITY; DELAYED HYPERSENSITIVITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOKINES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 42449106480     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1583     Document Type: Article

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