Published in Drug Week, May 6th, 2005
According to a study from the United States, "Natural killer (NK) cells play an important role in both innate and adaptive antiviral immune responses.
"The adaptive response typically requires that virus-specific antibodies decorate infected cells which then direct NK cell lysis through a CD16 mediated process termed antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC)."
"In this report," report N. Gupta and coworkers at the U.S. National Institutes for Health, "we employ a highly polymerized chimeric IgG1/IgA immunoglobulin (Ig) fusion protein that, by virtue...
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Source: Drug Week (2005-05-06)
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