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Review
. 1999 Nov 18;9(22):R851-3.
doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)80044-5.

Natural killer cells: stress out, turn on, tune in

A Diefenbach  1 , D H Raulet
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Natural killer cells: stress out, turn on, tune in

A Diefenbach et al. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

Natural killer cells attack tumor cells, infected cells and some normal cells, but the basis of their specificity is not completely understood. Recent studies indicate that epithelial tumor cells upregulate a stress-induced MHC class-I-like protein termed MICA, triggering NK cells via a recently described receptor called NKG2D.

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