Biological Character of RetroNectin Activated Cytokine-Induced Killer Cells by Lu Han, Yi-Man Shang, Yong-Ping Song, Quan-Li Gao

“…Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) using autologous cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells is a promising treatment for metastatic carcinomas. …”
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Trying to Kill a Killer; Impressive Killing of Patient Derived Glioblastoma Cultures Using NK-92 Natural Killer Cells Reveals Both Sensitive and Highly Resistant Glioblastoma Cells by Jane Yu, Hyeon Joo Kim, Jordyn Reinecke, James Hucklesby, Tennille Read, Akshata Anchan, Catherine E. Angel, Euan Scott Graham

“…The overall goal of this work was to assess the ability of Natural Killer cells to kill cultures of patient-derived glioblastoma cells. …”
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Viral and Nonviral Engineering of Natural Killer Cells as Emerging Adoptive Cancer Immunotherapies by Sandro Matosevic

“…Natural killer (NK) cells are powerful immune effectors whose antitumor activity is regulated through a sophisticated network of activating and inhibitory receptors. …”
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Urolithin A increases the natural killer activity of PBMCs in patients with prostate cancer by Vladimir Rogovskii, Vladimir Rogovskii, Vladimir V. Murugin, Vladimir V. Murugin, Nikolay Vorobyev, Nikolay Vorobyev, Sergey Popov, Nikolay Sturov, Alexey Krasheninnikov, Alexander Morozov, Marina Prokhorova

“…BackgroundThe natural killer (NK) activity of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) is a crucial defense against the onset and spread of cancer. …”
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Phenotypic and Functional Changes in Peripheral Blood Natural Killer Cells in Crohn Disease Patients by Suzanne Samarani, Patrick Sagala, Prevost Jantchou, Guy Grimard, Christophe Faure, Colette Deslandres, Devendra K. Amre, Ali Ahmad

“…We investigated activation status, cytotoxic potential, and gut homing ability of the peripheral blood Natural Killer (NK) cells in Crohn disease (CD) patients. …”
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A High-Salt Diet Disturbs the Development and Function of Natural Killer Cells in Mice by Xiaokang Zeng, Yan Li, Weibiao Lv, Xinhuai Dong, Chong Zeng, Liming Zeng, Zibo Wei, Xu Lin, Yanning Ma, Qiang Xiao

“…Moreover, increasing evidence shows that HSD is closely related to a variety of immune diseases. Natural killer (NK) cells are important innate immune cells that directly kill their targets via degranulation and secretion of interferon gamma (IFN-γ). …”
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Natural Killer Cells from Malignant Pleural Effusion Are Endowed with a Decidual-Like Proangiogenic Polarization by Annalisa Bosi, Silvia Zanellato, Barbara Bassani, Adriana Albini, Alessandra Musco, Maria Cattoni, Matteo Desio, Elisa Nardecchia, Davide Giuseppe D’Urso, Andrea Imperatori, Lorenzo Dominioni, Douglas M. Noonan, Lorenzo Mortara, Antonino Bruno

“…Natural killer (NK) cells are crucial in tumor recognition and eradication, but their activity is impaired in cancer patients, becoming poorly cytotoxic. …”
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A New Antibody–Cytokine Construct Targeting Natural Killer Cells: An Immunotherapeutic Approach to Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Michela Flego, Mauro Andreotti, Francesca Romana Mauro, Maria Beatrice Arasi, Silvia Zamboni, Zuleika Michelini, Sara Pepe, Clementina Maria Galluzzo, Roberta Amici, Diego Moricoli, Chiara Mazzei, Alessandro Ascione, Alessandra Mallano

“…In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), natural killer (NK) cells show a dysfunctional phenotype that correlates with disease progression. …”
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Sex Differences in Spontaneous Degranulation Activity of Intrahepatic Natural Killer Cells during Chronic Hepatitis B: Association with Estradiol Levels by Zuzana Macek Jilkova, Thomas Decaens, Alice Marlu, Hélène Marche, Evelyne Jouvin-Marche, Patrice N. Marche

“…Here, we investigated degranulation activity of circulating and intrahepatic natural killer (NK) cells from HBV and HCV chronically infected patients before any treatment (n=125). …”
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Bispecific antibody-mediated redirection of NKG2D-CAR natural killer cells facilitates dual targeting and enhances antitumor activity by Congcong Zhang, Anja Waldmann, Winfried S Wels, Jasmin Röder, Anne Scherer, Malena Bodden, Jordi Pfeifer Serrahima, Anita Bhatti, Nina Müller, Pranav Oberoi

“…Background Natural killer group 2D (NKG2D) is an activating receptor of natural killer (NK) cells and other lymphocytes that mediates lysis of malignant cells through recognition of stress-induced ligands such as MICA and MICB. …”
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Hyperleukocytosis in a neuroblastoma patient after treatment with natural killer T cells expressing a GD2-specific chimeric antigen receptor and IL-15 by Xin Xu, Shantan Reddy, Saleh Bhar, Frederic D Bushman, Amy N Courtney, Gabriel A Barragán, Gengwen Tian, Erica J Di Pierro, Leonid S Metelitsa, Antonino Montalbano, Hangjin Yu, Claudia Martinez Amador, Nisha Ghatwai, Michael S Wood, Deborah Schady, Aoife M Roche, David de la Cerda, Donald Williams Parsons, Andras Heczey

“…The ability of immune cells to expand numerically after infusion distinguishes adoptive immunotherapies from traditional drugs, providing unique therapeutic advantages as well as the potential for unmanageable toxicities. …”
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The urgency of Polya model problem-solving on students mathematical ability in facing the Industrial Revolution 5.0 by Abdurrahman Al Kayyis, Mohammad Tohir, Muhasshanah Muhasshanah

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CT45A1‐mediated MLC2 (MYL9) phosphorylation promotes natural killer cell resistance and outer cell fate in a cell‐in‐cell structure, potentiating the progression of microsatellite... by Hao‐Wei Teng, Hsiang‐Yueh Huang, Chun‐Chi Lin, Yuh‐Ching Twu, Wen‐Hao Yang, Wen‐Chun Lin, Hsin‐Yi Lan, Yen‐Yu Lin, Wei‐Lun Hwang

“…CT45A1‐expressing microsatellite stable (MSS) CRC cells showed enhanced migratory ability. However, CT45A1‐expressing MSI‐H CRC cells, but not MSS CRC cells, showed higher resistance to natural killer (NK) cell cytotoxicity and served as outer cells in homotypic CIC structures, preventing exogenous or therapeutic antibody access to inner CRC cells. …”
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NK-DC Crosstalk in Immunity to Microbial Infection by Rony Thomas, Xi Yang

“…The interaction between natural killer (NK) cell and dendritic cell (DC), two important cellular components of innate immunity, started to be elucidated in the last years. …”
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Conjunctival scarring in trachoma is associated with the HLA-C ligand of KIR and is exacerbated by heterozygosity at KIR2DL2/KIR2DL3. by Chrissy H Roberts, Sandra Molina, Pateh Makalo, Hassan Joof, Emma M Harding-Esch, Sarah E Burr, David C W Mabey, Robin L Bailey, Matthew J Burton, Martin J Holland

“…Infections of the conjunctiva cause the blinding disease trachoma, an immuno-pathological disease that is characterised by chronic conjunctival inflammation and fibrosis. The polymorphic Killer-cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR) are found on Natural Killer cells and have co-evolved with the Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA) class I system. …”
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Enhancing Artificial Intelligence on a Real Mobile Game by Fabio Aiolli, Claudio E. Palazzi

“…Mobile games represent a killer application that is attracting millions of subscribers worldwide. …”
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Hypoxanthine Derivatives in Experimental Infections by Claudio De Simone, Edoardo Arrigoni Martelli, Pietro Foresta, Giuseppe Famularo, Roberto Giacomelli, Emilio Jirillo, Vito Ruggiero, Giorgio Tonietti

“…In fact, only the treatment with ST 789 resulted in a clear enhancement of the primary antibody production as well as macrophage phagocytic activity, whereas T lymphocyte responsiveness to mitogens and both macrophage- and natural killer-dependent cytotoxicity were not significantly affected. …”
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Pan-caspase inhibitors induce secretion of HIV-1 latency reversal agent lymphotoxin-alpha from cytokine-primed NK cells by Zamaneh Hajikhezri, Ioannis Zygouras, Anders Sönnerborg, Robert van Domselaar

“…Shock-and-kill strategies, which aim to reactivate latent HIV-1 followed by cytotoxic clearance, have shown limited success in vivo due to insufficient efficacy of latency reversal agents (LRAs) and off-target effects. Natural killer (NK) cells, with their ability to mediate cytotoxicity independent of antigen specificity, offer a promising avenue for enhancing the shock-and-kill approach. …”
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Lyophilized powder of calf bone marrow hydrolysate liposomes improved renal anemia: In vitro and in vivo evaluation. by Li Li, Shasha Zhao, Xiaodun Liu, Zhe Xu, Dong Li, Xiaoyu Dai

“…Calf bone marrow was defatted, papain hydrolyzed, liposomalized and lyophilized. Its hematopoietic ability was proved by the colony formation experiment of umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells in vitro. …”
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What’s in a name? Memory NK cells for cancer immunotherapy by William J Murphy, Robert J Canter, Sean J Judge, Megan C Purl

“…The discovery that natural killer (NK) cells can retain features of “memory” from previous stimulation and pathogen exposure was a landmark advance highlighting one of many ways in which NK cells of the innate immune system resemble T cells of the adaptive immune system. …”
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