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  2. Natural killer cell - Wikipedia

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    Natural killer cells, also known as NK cells, are a type of cytotoxic lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system.They are a kind of large granular lymphocytes [1] [2] (LGL), and belong to the rapidly expanding family of known innate lymphoid cells (ILC) and represent 5–20% of all circulating lymphocytes in humans. [3]

  3. MHC class I polypeptide–related sequence A - Wikipedia

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    MICA rather functions as a stress-induced ligand (as a danger signal) for integral membrane protein receptor NKG2D ("natural-killer group 2, member D"). MICA is broadly recognized by NK cells, γδ T cells, and CD8 + αβ T cells which carry NKG2D receptor on their cell surface and which are activated via this interaction. [7]

  4. Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor - Wikipedia

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    Natural killer (NK) cells are a type of lymphocyte cell involved in the innate immune system's response to viral infection and tumor transformation of host cells. [20] [7] Like T cells, NK cells have many qualities characteristic of the adaptive immune system, including the production of “memory” cells that persist following encounter with antigens and the ability to create a secondary ...

  5. Adaptive NK cell - Wikipedia

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    An adaptive natural killer (NK) cell or memory-like NK cell is a specialized natural killer cell that has the potential to form immunological memory. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They can be distinguished from cytotoxic NK (cNK) cells by their receptor expression profile and epigenome. [ 3 ]

  6. KLRC2 - Wikipedia

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    KLRC2 has been shown to interact and form dimers with CD94. [5] [6] The CD94/NKG2C heterodimer can bind to HLA-E [7] [8] and this binding leads to NK cells activation.During infection with human cytomegalovirus, peptides derived from the virus are presented on HLA-E and natural killer cells that express the CD94/NKG2C receptor can specifically recognise the virus peptides.

  7. HLA-E - Wikipedia

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    HLA-E has a very specialized role in cell recognition by natural killer cells (NK cells). [7] HLA-E binds a restricted subset of peptides derived from signal peptides of classical MHC class I molecules, namely HLA-A, B, C, G. [8] These peptides are released from the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by the signal peptide peptidase and trimmed by the cytosolic proteasome.

  8. Lymphokine-activated killer cell - Wikipedia

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    In cell biology, a lymphokine-activated killer cell (also known as a LAK cell) is a white blood cell, consisting mostly of natural killer, natural killer T, and T cells that has been stimulated to kill tumor cells, but because of the function in which they activate, and the cells they can successfully target, they are classified as different than the classical natural killer and T lymphocyte ...

  9. Neuroimmune system - Wikipedia

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    The key cellular components of the neuroimmune system are glial cells, including astrocytes, microglia, and oligodendrocytes. [1] [2] [5] Unlike other hematopoietic cells of the peripheral immune system, mast cells naturally occur in the brain where they mediate interactions between gut microbes, the immune system, and the central nervous system as part of the microbiota–gut–brain axis.