Articles tagged "Natural killer cells"

2015 American Transplant Congress
CD27^low NK Cells Prolong Allograft Survival in Mice By Inhibiting CD8⁺ T Cell Responses Through Controlling Graft-Derived Donor DCs
A. Kroemer,^1,2 M. Lantow,¹ E. Eggenhofer,¹ M. Sabet-Baktach,¹ P. Renner,¹ H. Schlitt,¹ E. Geissler.¹
¹Department of Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany; ²Georgetown Transplant Institute, Washington, DC.
The underlying mechanisms by which distinct NK cell subsets promote either allograft rejection or survival remain unclear. Here, we tested the hypothesis that distinctively mature…