Natural Killer Cells

• Author : Michael T. Lotze,Angus W. Thomson
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 12 November 2009

Natural Killer Cells explains the importance of killer cells and how they are produced. It mentions that the most likely explanation for killer cell production is that they serve as a complementary system for T cells as a primary defense against viruses. However, these cells defend against certain viruses only, such as herpes viruses and influenza viruses. The book also explains the primary functions of killer cells, and it discusses how these cells help recognize damaged tissues, limit further damage

• Author : Jacques Zimmer
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 12 January 2010

Natural killer (NK) cells have been at the forefront of immunology for two decades. During that time, a great amount of information about these cells has been obtained. They are important in antiinfectious and antitumoral defense and shape the adaptive immune response. In addition, they can act as immunoregulatory cells. In recent years, the therapeutic potential of NK cells in cancer immunotherapy has become increasingly evident. This book describes in detail current knowledge about NK cells and covers a broad

• Author : Srinivas S. Somanchi
• Publisher : Methods in Molecular Biology
• Release : 27 May 2018

• Author : Eric Vivier,James Di Santo,Alessandro Moretta
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 15 February 2016

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the discovery of Natural Killer (NK) cells, this volume focuses on the recent advances in our understanding of NK cell development and differentiation and their acquisition of functional properties, as well as the latest models for NK-cell analysis in mice and applications in clinical medicine. NK cells have travelled a circuitous path from their initial description as ‘spontaneous killers’ (for some simply an experimental artifact) to being a bona fide subset of innate lymphoid

• Author : Eva Lotzova,Ronald B. Herberman
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 23 July 2019

First published in 1986: This book contributes to the advancing knowledge of reads in the field of NK cells, and will be helpful as a teaching device.

• Author : Andreas Diefenbach
• Publisher : Elsevier Inc. Chapters
• Release : 06 August 2013

Natural killer (NK) cells are granular lymphocytes that play important roles in immunity against viruses and in the immune surveillance of tumors. In addition to being a potent innate source of IFN-γ, NK cells hold cytoplasmic granula that contain perforin and granzymes involved in cell-mediated cytotoxicity. NK cells express various types of immunoreceptors that are all designed to sense pathological changes of self cells. NK cells differ from lymphocytes of the adaptive immune system, such as T and B cells,

• Author : Sigurd J. Normann
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 21 May 2012

This book is the outcome of a meeting held in Davos, Switzerland, February 7-12, 1982 focused primarily on mononuclear phagocytes and on natural killer (NK) cells. This IX International RES Congress was attended by 489 scientists from 31 countries and there were 340 scientific presentations in oral or poster session. The essential purpose of the Congress was to bring together scientists representing various aspects of mononuclear phagocyte biology to review and examine cri~ically the effects and mechanisms of macrophage growth control as well

• Author : Stephanie Jost,R. Keith Reeves,Stephen Noel Waggoner
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 15 December 2020

• Author : Vincent Vieillard,Bree Foley,Sandra Lopez-Verges
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 23 February 2018

NK cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system that share some features with adaptive immune cells like T cells. They are well known for their importance to control viral infections and tumor development, but also intracellular bacterial and parasitic infections. A balance between negative and positive signals transmitted via germ line-encoded inhibitory and activating receptors controls the function of NK cells. Activated NK cells respond by killing the infected or tumor cells without prior sensitization, and by producing cytokines

• Author : Kerry S. Campbell
• Publisher : Humana
• Release : 23 August 2016

As the research has continued, it has become increasingly clear that natural killer (NK) cells are critical sentinels of the innate immune response, playing important roles in protecting the body from numerous pathogens and cancer in addition to contributing to normal pregnancy and impacting the outcomes of transplantation. While the first edition provided a valuable collection of classical cellular and in vivo techniques to study NK cell functions, the Second Edition of "Natural Killer Cell Protocols: Cellular and Molecular Methods"

• Author : Kerry S. Campbell,Marco Colonna
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 20 September 2021

In Natural Killer Cell Protocols: Cellular and Molecular Methods, Kerry S. Campbell and Marco Colonna have assembled a comprehensive collection of readily reproducible methods designed to study natural killer (NK) cells from the broadest variety of viewpoints. These include not only classic techniques, but also new approaches to standard methods, newly evolved techniques that have become valuable for specific applications, and unique models for manipulating and studying NK cells. Among the advanced methods covered are those for in vitro transendothelial

• Author : Chiara Romagnani,Joseph C. Sun,Marco Colonna
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 16 July 2018

Natural Killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes, now recognized as members of a larger family of “Innate lymphoid cells” (ILCs). Both murine and human NK cells are well characterized effector cells with cytotoxic as well as cytokine production ability which mainly react in response to microbial and cell stress stimuli, thus playing a central role in the defense against pathogen infection, in tumor surveillance and in regulating immune homeostasis. Despite these established concepts, our understanding of the complexity of NK

• Author : Massimo Vitale,Simona Sivori,Michael A. Caligiuri
• Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
• Release : 24 March 2020

• Author : Ezekiel Onyonka Mecha
• Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
• Release : 21 May 2014

- Correlation between NK cell density and CD4+/CD8+ ratio during HIV/AIDS progression - Correlation between NK cells and Liver/Kidney enzymes during HIV/AIDS progression - Anaemia in HIV/AIDS progression

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 20 September 1986