Article
Diversity of tissue-resident NK cells.
Seminars in immunology - 1 Jun 2017
Peng Hui, Tian Zhigang
Abstract excerpt
Although natural killer (NK) cells were initially named for their spontaneous tumor-killing capacity, their concept has been greatly expanded with more than 40 years of extensive investigation. Currently, NK cells are known as a heterogeneous population of innate lymphoid cell (ILC) family, consisting of different subsets with unique phenotypic and functional features. Recent studies have shown that...
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- Animals
- Biodiversity
- Cell Movement
- Humans
- Immunity, Innate
- Killer Cells, Natural
- Lymphocyte Subsets
- Organ Specificity