Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Outside the box - p471

doi:10.1038/ni0508-471

This Focus on natural killer cells aims to highlight what is currently known and what remains to be understood about these important innate immune cells.

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Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Natural killer cells: diversity in search of a niche - pp473 - 475

James P Di Santo

doi:10.1038/ni.f.201

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Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Natural killer cell recognition of missing self - pp477 - 480

Klas Kärre

doi:10.1038/ni0508-477

The idea that NK cells can distinguish aberrant cells by recognizing 'absence of the expected', rather than 'presence of the unexpected' emerged more than 25 years ago. Klas Kärre recapitulates how the idea took shape, and the first five years of experimental work to test its general predictions.

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Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Mistaken notions about natural killer cells - pp481 - 485

Wayne M Yokoyama

doi:10.1038/ni1583

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Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Natural killer cell–directed therapies: moving from unexpected results to successful strategies - pp486 - 494

Magali Terme, Evelyn Ullrich, Nicolas F Delahaye, Nathalie Chaput & Laurence Zitvogel

doi:10.1038/ni1580

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Up on the tightrope: natural killer cell activation and inhibition - pp495 - 502

Lewis L Lanier

doi:10.1038/ni1581

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Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Functions of natural killer cells - pp503 - 510

Eric Vivier, Elena Tomasello, Myriam Baratin, Thierry Walzer & Sophie Ugolini

doi:10.1038/ni1582

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Focus on Natural Killer Cells

Research Highlights - p511

doi:10.1038/ni0508-511

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