The interplay between Leishmania promastigotes and human Natural Killer cells in vitro leads to direct lysis of Leishmania by NK cells and modulation of NK cell activity by Leishmania promastigotes

Parasitology

Volumn 138, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1898-1909

  Lieke, Thorsten ^a,b   Nyln, Susanne ^a   Eidsmo, Liv ^a   Schmetz, Christel ^c   Berg, Louise ^a   Akuffo, Hannah ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c BERNHARD NOCHT INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

cutaneous leishmaniasis; direct recognition; human NK cells; lysis

Indexed keywords

5 CHLOROMETHYLFLUORESCIN DIACETATE; FLUORESCENT DYE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 5-CHLOROMETHYLFLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL FATE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOPATHOGENIC EFFECT; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IN VITRO STUDY; LEISHMANIA; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOUSE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PARASITE SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMASTIGOTE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CELL DEATH; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

CELL DEATH; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCEINS; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 84865581618     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182011001363     Document Type: Article

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