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SUBMITTER: Hernandez EG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5904182 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hernandez Eric G EG Partida-Rodriguez Oswaldo O Camorlinga-Ponce Margarita M Nieves-Ramirez Miriam M Ramos-Vega Irma I Torres Javier J Perez-Rodriguez Martha M
Scientific reports 20180417 1
NK cells are important in innate immunity for their capacity to kill infected or cancer cells. The killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) are a family of polymorphic genes with inhibitory and activating functions. The main driving force for gastric cancer (GC) development is a chronic response, which causes an increase of NK cells in the gastric mucosa. The aim of this work was to study polymorphisms in KIR genes in patients with either GC or non-atrophic gastritis (NAG). We studied 242 ...[more]