Hidden talents of natural killers: NK cells in innate and adaptive immunity

EMBO Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1103-1110

  Cooper, Megan A ^a   Colonna, Marco ^a   Yokoyama, Wayne M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 22;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DERMATITIS; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTION; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; LYMPHOID TISSUE; MEMORY CELL; MUCOSAL IMMUNITY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH17 CELL; THYMUS;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPH NODES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 70449703309     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2009.203     Document Type: Review

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