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CURRENT OPINION IN VIROLOGY
Volume 34, Issue -, Pages 130-139Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.coviro.2019.02.005
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- National Institutes of Health [DA038017, TR001425]
- Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation
- Lawrence Ellison Foundation
- Dr. Ralph and Marian Falk Medical Research Trust
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Natural killer (NK) cells play a multitude of antiviral roles that are significant enough to provoke viral counterefforts to subvert their activity. As innate lymphocytes, NK cells provide a rapid source of pro-inflammatory antiviral cytokines and bring to bear cytolytic activities that are collectively meant to constrain viral replication and dissemination. Additionally, NK cells participate in adaptive immunity both by shaping virus-specific T-cell responses and by developing adaptive features themselves, including enhanced antibody-dependent effector functions. The relative importance of different functional activities of NK cells are poorly understood, thereby obfuscating clinical use of these cells. Here we focus on opposing efforts of NK cells and viruses to gain tactical superiority during infection.
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