Up on the tightrope: natural killer cell activation and inhibition.

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Published in Nat Immunol on May 01, 2008

Authors

Lewis L Lanier1

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1: Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Cancer Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0414, USA. lewis.lanier@ucsf.edu

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