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Current Topics
in Microbiology
and Immunology
Editors
. Compans, Atlanta/ia
. Cooper, Birmingham/Alabama
T. Honjo, Kyoto · H. Koprowski, Philadelphia/Pennsylvania
F. Melchers, Basel · . Oldstone, La Jolla/California
S. Olsnes, Oslo · M. Potter, Bethesda/Maryland
. Vogt, La Jolla/California · H. Wagner, Munich
E. Vivier and M. Colonna (Eds.)
Immunobiology
of Natural
Killer Cell Receptors
With 27 Figures and 8 Tables
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Eric Vivier, DVM, PhD.
Laboratory of NK Cells and Innate Immunity
Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML)
CNRS-INSERM-Université de la Méditerranée
Campus de Luminy, Case 906
13288 Marseille Cedex 09
France
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Marco Colonna, .
Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
West Building, Rooms 4724, Box 8118
660 South Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63110
USA
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Cover illustration: Natural Killer (NK) cell activation results from a dynamic equilibrium between
complementary and sometime antagonist forces, such as that initiated by activating receptors
recognizing stress-induced self (. NKG2D ligands) and inhibitory receptors recognizing
constitutively-expressed self (. MHC class I molecules).
Library of Congress Catalog Number 72-152360
ISSN 0070-217X
ISBN-10 3-540-26083-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13 978-3-540-26083-7 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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