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Dendritic cells and NK cells

maciej simm simm at cd4cd8.com
Sat Feb 5 22:08:33 EST 2000


got a reference? NK's are one of my particular interests these days.
thanks,

Maciej

HHarada wrote:

> Somebody, tell me about meaning of interaction of DC and NK cells in vivo.
>
> Recently, it has been reported that NK cells recognize and kill autologous
> dendritic cells in vitro. Authors in a paper describe
> that the interaction induce increase of killing activity and IFN-g 
> production. However, my question is why NK cells kill such a useful cells in
> vitro.
> Does this phenomenon occur in vivo actually ?
>
> Please, somebody help me.
>
> Hideki Harada





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