Monday, 19 June 2017

Natural Killers Cells can eliminate malignant tumors effectively when they get activated

Natural Killers Cells
Cells exert natural cytolytic activity and they are capable of eliminating the most dangerous K562 eritroleukemia cell line. However, they need to be activated to exert the optimum effctor to exert maximum pressure on them.

Natural killer cells are able to eliminate the tumors that are still in formative stage. They are however unable to eradicate the spread of well establisjed tumors.

NK cells are also abundant in numbers and the challenge lays picking up the right cell that can be activated and used for immunotherapy to fight cancer. Hence, adoptive transferred NK cell-based therapeutic protocols must choose optimal activation strategies for the in vitro activated NK cells, and, their chemokine receptor repertoire.

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