Ligand specificity of Killer cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors: A brief history of KIR

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Van Bergen, Jeroen ^a   Trowsdale, John ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84874297215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00394     Document Type: Editorial

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