Liver natural killer cells: Subsets and roles in liver immunity

Cellular and Molecular Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 328-336

  Peng, Hui ^a,b   Wisse, Eddie ^c   Tian, Zhigang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

conventional NK cell; liver; liver resident NK cell; pit cell; tolerance.

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; IMMUNITY; LIVER; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; ORGAN; RAT; RESIDENT; SPECIES; ANIMAL; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; IMMUNITY, INNATE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVER;

EID: 84966330666     PISSN: 16727681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cmi.2015.96     Document Type: Review

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