Simulations of the NK cell immune synapse reveal that activation thresholds can be established by inhibitory receptors acting locally.

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Published in J Immunol on June 20, 2011

Authors

Asya Kaplan1, Shulamit Kotzer, Catarina R Almeida, Refael Kohen, Gilad Halpert, Mali Salmon-Divon, Karsten Köhler, Petter Höglund, Daniel M Davis, Ramit Mehr

Author Affiliations

1: The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel.

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