The Second Life of Natural Killer (NK) Cells

• Autor principal: Joseph C. Sun (auth)
• Outros Autores: Marco Colonna (auth), Chiara Romagnani (auth)
• Formato: Recurso Electrónico Capítulo de Livro
• Idioma: inglês
• Publicado em: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Colecção: Frontiers Research Topics
• Assuntos: Medicine; natural killer cells; ILC; NK cells; immune therapy; viral infection; NK cell education; immunotherapy; MHC-I; cancer; immune regulation; adaptive immunity
• Acesso em linha: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes, now recognized as members of a larger family of "Innate lymphoid cells" (ILCs). Both murine and human NK cells are well characterized effector cells with cytotoxic as well as cytokine production ability which mainly react in response to mic...