NK cell education: not an on-off switch but a tunable rheostat

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 143-149

  Brodin, Petter ^a   Kärre, Klas ^a   Höglund, Petter ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL HETEROGENEITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; TARGET CELL; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SEPARATION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, MHC CLASS I; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RECEPTORS, KIR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 63149126181     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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