Transcriptomic profiling of human primary NK cells treated with cortisol and/or co-cultured with K562 target cells
Human primary NK cells were isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and cultured under two conditions: with or without cortisol (1 µM). In parallel, primary NK cells were co-cultured with K562 target cells for 6 hours in the presence or absence of cortisol (1 µM) to assess the impact of glucocorticoid exposure on NK-cell activation. Following treatment and/or co-culture, NK cells were sorted to high purity and processed for transcriptomic profiling to identify cortisol-induced transcriptional changes in resting and target-stimulated NK cells.