Natural killer cells: remembrances of things past.
Recent work has revealed that natural killer cells exhibit a form of memory, previously considered an exclusive property of adaptive immunity. While protective, natural killer cell memory is probably hazier and more fleeting than T cell memory.
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Cancer Research Laboratory, 489 Life Sciences Addition, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. raulet@berkeley.edu
David H
DH
Raulet
D000818:Animals; D007107:Immune System / Q000502:physiology; D007156:Immunologic Memory / Q000276:immunology*; D007694:Killer Cells, Natural / Q000276:immunology*; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice