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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Sarvaria A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5362597 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in immunology 20170323
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes of the innate immune system able to kill different targets such as cancer cells and virally infected cells without prior activation making then attractive candidates for cancer immunotherapy. Umbilical cord blood (UCB) has become a source of hematopoietic stem cells for transplantation but as we gain a better understanding of the characteristics of each immune cell that UCB contains, we will also be able to develop new cell therapies for cancer. In this ...[more]