A team effort: natural killer cells on the first leg of the tumor immunity relay race

Recent work by Böttcher and colleagues defines a new role for Natural Killer cells in the anti-tumor immune response, arriving early into the tumor microenvironment before passing the baton to DC1 dendritic cells. DC1 dendritic cells subsequently activate CD8+ T cells resulting in effective anti-tum...

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Main Authors: Fessenden, Timothy B, Duong, Ellen, Spranger-Zimmermann, Stefani
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Biomed Central Ltd. 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/117046
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4015-7112