When killers become helpers

Sci Transl Med. 2013 Jul 24;5(195):195fs29. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006850.

Abstract

Interplay between a natural killer (NK)-cell receptor, NKp30, and other cells in the salivary glands profoundly affects pathogenesis of the autoimmune disease Sjögren's syndrome (Rusakiewicz et al., this issue).

Publication types

  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Natural Cytotoxicity Triggering Receptor 3 / genetics*
  • Sjogren's Syndrome / blood*
  • Sjogren's Syndrome / genetics*

Substances

  • NCR3 protein, human
  • Natural Cytotoxicity Triggering Receptor 3