Inhibitory and regulatory immune synapses

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 340, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-79

  Eissmann, Philipp ^a   Davis, Daniel M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; CELL PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; HLA C ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL KINETICS; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOREGULATION; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ANIMAL; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CYTOKINES; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSES; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL;

EID: 77950876856     PISSN: 0070217X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-03858-7_4     Document Type: Review

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