Article Dans Une Revue Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol Année : 2012

Natural killer cell tolerance: control by self or self-control?

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A major challenge for the immune system is to control pathogens and stressed cells, such as infected or tumors cells, while sparing healthy self-cells. To achieve this tolerance to self, immune cells must recognize and differentiate "self" versus "nonself" and "self" versus "altered self." In the absence of self-tolerance, cells of the adaptive immune system attack healthy cells and cause autoimmune diseases such as lupus, psoriasis, and type I diabetes. Mechanisms at work to ensure tolerance in the innate immune system are still poorly understood. Natural killer cells are innate immune lymphocytes, which have the capacity to kill cellular targets and produce cytokines without prior specific sensitization. Because of these intrinsic effector capacities, tolerance mechanisms must exist to prevent autoreactivity. Herein, we will review the present knowledge on NK cell tolerance.

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hal-00685519 , version 1 (05-04-2012)

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Baptiste N Jaeger, Eric Vivier. Natural killer cell tolerance: control by self or self-control?. Cold Spring Harb Perspect Biol, 2012, 4 (3), epub ahead of print. ⟨10.1101/cshperspect.a007229⟩. ⟨hal-00685519⟩
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