Article
Tissue-specific effector functions of innate lymphoid cells.
Immunology - 1 Aug 2013
Björkström Niklas K, Kekäläinen Eliisa, Mjösberg Jenny
Abstract excerpt
Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) is the collective term for a group of related innate lymphocytes, including natural killer (NK) cells and the more recently discovered non-NK ILCs, which all lack rearranged antigen receptors such as those expressed by T and B cells. Similar to NK cells, the newly discovered ILCs depend on the transcription factor Id2 and the common γ-chain of the interleukin-2 receptor for...
Topics
- Animals
- Cytokines
- Female
- Gastrointestinal Tract
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- Immunity, Mucosal
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Liver
- Lung
- Lymphocyte Subsets
- Male
