title: The immunological meaning of Thy-1-negative NK cells.
abstract: In this article Donald Rowley and Prakash Shah propose that Thy-1(-) natural killer (NK) cells activated during the course of immune reactions suppress or eliminate dendritic cells (DC) which have interacted with antigen and are required to stimulate lymphocyte proliferation. They review the experimental basis for this concept of immune regulation and emphasize that nearly homogeneous populations of well-characterized NK cells are required to define the functions of NK cells.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics and the La Rabida-University of Chicago Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60649, USA.
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Rowley
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Shah