Emergence of NK-cell progenitors and functionally competent NK-cell lineage subsets in the early mouse embryo.

The earliest stages of natural killer (NK)-cell development are not well characterized. In this study, we investigated in different fetal hematopoietic tissues how NK-cell progenitors and their mature NK-cell progeny emerge and expand during fetal development. Here we demonstrate, for the first time...

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Main Authors: Tang, Y, Peitzsch, C, Charoudeh, H, Cheng, M, Chaves, P, Jacobsen, SE, Sitnicka, E
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2012