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Subsets of human natural killer cells and their regulatory effects.
Immunology - 1 Apr 2014
Fu Binqing, Tian Zhigang, Wei Haiming
Abstract excerpt
Human natural killer (NK) cells have distinct functions as NK(tolerant) , NK(cytotoxic) and NK(regulatory) cells and can be divided into different subsets based on the relative expression of the surface markers CD27 and CD11b. CD27⁺ NK cells, which are abundant cytokine producers, are numerically in the minority in human peripheral blood but constitute the large population of NK cells in cord blood, spleen,...
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