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Altered phenotype of NK cells from obese rats can be normalized by transfer into lean animals.
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Oct 2009
Lautenbach Anne, Wrann Christiane D, Jacobs Roland, Müller Guenter, Brabant Georg, Nave Heike
Abstract excerpt
In diet-induced obese rats, leptin-mediated natural killer (NK) cell activation has been demonstrated to be impaired by abrogated intracellular JAK2-STAT3 signaling. The contribution of the obese microenvironment to this NK cell dysfunction and its reversibility remains elusive. In this study, the functions of NK cells from diet-induced obese rats after adoptive transfer into lean littermates were investigated...
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