Assessment of natural killer (NK) and NKT cells in murine spleens and livers

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 447, Issue , 2008, Pages 259-276

  Shey, Michael R ^a   Ballas, Zuhair K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

ADCC; Chromium release assay; Cytokine secretion; Cytoplasmic staining; Cytotoxicity; Flow cytometry; Natural killer; NK; NKT; Reverse ADCC (R ADCC)

Indexed keywords

MURINAE; MUS;

EID: 84934435554     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-242-7_18     Document Type: Article

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