High-Risk Leukemia: Past, Present, and Future Role of NK Cells

Natural killer (NK) cells are a population of cytotoxic innate lymphocytes that evolved prior to their adaptive counterparts and constitute one of the first lines of defense against infected/mutated cells. Several studies have shown that in patients with acute leukemia given haploidentical hematopoi...

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Main Authors: Melissa Mavers, Alice Bertaina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
Series:Journal of Immunology Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/1586905