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. 2017 Mar 21;46(3):340-342.
doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.03.001.

Disarming the Killers: Brain Strikes on NK Cells

Linda Quatrini  1 , Sophie Ugolini  2
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Disarming the Killers: Brain Strikes on NK Cells

Linda Quatrini et al. Immunity. .
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Brain ischemia induces profound systemic immunosuppression, leading to infectious complications. In this issue of Immunity, Liu et al. (2017) demonstrate that distinct neuroendocrine pathways differentially inhibit natural killer (NK) cell responses in the central nervous system and the periphery after cerebral infarction.

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