Gap junction intercellular communications regulate NK cell activation and modulate NK cytotoxic capacity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1313-1319

  Tittarelli, Andrés ^a,b   Mendoza Naranjo, Ariadna ^a,c   Farías, Marcela ^b   Guerrero, Israel ^a,b   Ihara, Fumitaka ^a   Wennerberg, Erik ^d   Riquelme, Sebastian ^e   Gleisner, Alejandra ^a,b   Kalergis, Alexis ^e   Lundqvist, Andreas ^d   López, Mercedes N ^a,b   Chambers, Benedict J ^f   Salazar Onfray, Flavio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^f KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD69 ANTIGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN; GAP JUNCTION PROTEIN CX43; GRANZYME B; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL VIABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOTOXICITY; DENDRITIC CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; GAP JUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

APOPTOSIS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CONNEXIN 43; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DENDRITIC CELLS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GRANZYMES; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC SURVEILLANCE; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSES; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 84893412043     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1301297     Document Type: Article

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