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KIR-like activating natural killer cell receptors and their association with complicated malaria in north India.
Acta tropica - 1 Feb 2018
Prakash Swayam, Ranjan Prabhat, Ghoshal Ujjala, Agrawal Suraksha
Abstract excerpt
Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) genomic regions have been suggested to influence malaria pathogenesis and infection susceptibility. KIRs are known as activating natural killer (NK) cell receptors, which upon binding to their corresponding human leukocyte antigen (HLA) ligands cause lysis of any infected cell. We have examined the potential association of KIR genes with complicated malaria (CM) among...
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