The planar lipid bilayer system serves as a reductionist approach for studying NK cell immunological synapses and their functions

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1441, Issue , 2016, Pages 151-165

  Bertolet, Grant ^a   Liu, Dongfang ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Confocal microscopy; Immune synapse; Immunological synapse; Immunosynapse; IS; Natural killer; NK; SLB; Supported lipid bilayer

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSE; LYMPHOCYTE FUNCTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER; SUPPORTED LIPID BILAYER; CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LIPID BILAYER; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM;

CELLS, CULTURED; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSES; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIPID BILAYERS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL;

EID: 84979224040     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3684-7_13     Document Type: Chapter

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