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Emerging role for NK cells in the pathogenesis of inflammatory arthropathies.
Autoimmunity reviews - 1 Aug 2011
Conigliaro Paola, Scrivo Rossana, Valesini Guido, Perricone Roberto
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Natural killer (NK) cells are large, granular lymphocytes devoted to the defense against microbial agents and cancer cells, traditionally recognized as an important arm of the innate immunity, even if more recent data underpin a role also in the responses of acquired immunity. Several studies have led to ascertain that NK cells are involved in the pathogenesis of many immune-mediated diseases, where they may...
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