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Natural killer cell activity associated with reticulum cell neoplasms

K S Chang, T Log

    International Journal of Cancer
    |March 15, 1980
    PubMed
    Summary

    Natural killer (NK) cell activity significantly increases in mice with growing reticulum-cell neoplasm (RCN). This augmented NK activity targets various tumor cells, suggesting RCN may uniquely promote NK responses.

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