The IL-12 Signature: NK Cell Terminal CD56+high Stage and Effector Functions
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The IL-12 signature: NK cell terminal CD56+high stage and effector functions.
We report that human peripheral NK cells expressing high CD56 levels (CD56(+high)) are terminally differentiated cells indistinguishable from mature NK cells recently activated in the presence of IL-12, and not a functionally distinct NK-cell subset or progenitors to mature CD56(+low) NK cells. CD56(+high) NK cells coexpress all differentiation Ags constitutive or inducible in mature (CD56(+)) ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Immunology
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0022-1767,1550-6606
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.1.88