Title : Natural killer T (NKT) cells and their role in antitumor immunity.

Pub. Date : 2002 Mar

PMID : 11880205






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1 These novel T lymphocytes produce both Th1 and Th2 cytokines, recognize phospholipid and glycolipid antigens presented by CD1 molecules in a similar manner as peptides are recognized by cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), and kill tumor cell targets by a perforin-dependent mechanism like NK cells and CTL. Glycolipids CD1c molecule Homo sapiens