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Transient appearance of hepatic natural killer cells with high cytotoxicity and unique phenotype in very young mice.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Apr 2006
Bai X, Wang S, Tomiyama-Miyaji C, Shen J, Taniguchi T, Izumi N, Li C, Bakir H Y, Nagura T, Takahashi S, Kawamura T, Iiai T, Okamoto H, Hatakeyama K, Abo T
Abstract excerpt
There were few natural killer (NK) cells in the liver in very young mice at the age of 1-2 weeks. This was because the cell yield from the liver of young mice was low. The percentage of NK cells in the liver of young mice, however, was almost comparable with that in the liver of adult mice. Lymphocytes were isolated from the liver and spleen of C57BL/6 (B6) mice, and NK cytotoxicity and phenotype were herein...
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