Turning on Natural Killer Cells
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Turning on Natural Killer Cells
NK cells preferentially recognize and kill cells that lack expression of MHC class I (1). While inhibitory receptors expressing immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motifs prevent NK cells from harming tissues expressing normal levels of classical or nonclassical MHC class I (for a review , see reference 2), what turns on NK cells? Recent reports (3, 4), including Smith et al. in this issue...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0022-1007,1540-9538
DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.8.1259