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Article: SCIENCE SCAN NATURAL KILLER CELLS ZERO IN ON PATHOGENIC PARASITES' COMMON SURFACE- PROTEIN ANTIGEN By David N. Leff Science Editor.
- Article from:
- BIOWORLD Today
- Article date:
- January 26, 1999
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Editor's note: Science Scan is a roundup of recently published biotechnology-related research: Armies historically have fielded three main fighting forces: infantry, cavalry and artillery. In addition, they raised a small, secret, elect unit that fought mainly with knives and piano wire, to infiltrate the enemy's ranks and kill up-close and personally. The human immune system has a similar order of battle, based largely on three white-blood-cell fighting forces: antibodies, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and macrophages. CTLs and antibodies are programmed to find the pathogenic enemy, memorize the shape of its antigenic target molecules, engage it, and kill it. ...