Phenotypic and functional studies of NK cells in neonates and during early childhood

During infancy, before adaptive immunity has matured, innate immunity is thought to be relatively more important. Human natural killer (NK) cells are innate immune cells involved in the control of virus-infected cells and can influence adaptive immunity mainly through cytokine production. This thesi...

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Main Author: Sundström, Yvonne
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Stockholms universitet, Wenner-Grens institut för experimentell biologi 2008
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-8258
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:978-91-7155-747-6