NK cells blur the frontier between innate and acquired immunity
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1 Department of Science, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy 2 Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Pathology, University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy 3 Department of Experimental and Clinic Medicine, University of Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy 4 Department of Microbiology Cell and Tumorbiology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden *Correspondence: [email protected]
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