KIR receptors as key regulators of NK cells activity in health and disease

J Dębska-Zielkowska, G Moszkowska, M Zieliński… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are part of the cellular immune response. They target mainly cancer
and virally infected cells. To a high extent cytotoxic activity of NK cells is regulated inter alia …

HLA class I molecules as immune checkpoints for NK cell alloreactivity and anti-viral immunity in kidney transplantation

B Duygu, TI Olieslagers, M Groeneweg… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphocytes that can kill diseased-or virally-infected cells,
mediate antibody dependent cytotoxicity and produce type I immune-associated cytokines …

Dual role of natural killer cells on graft rejection and control of cytomegalovirus infection in renal transplantation

M López-Botet, C Vilches, D Redondo-Pachón… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Allograft rejection constitutes a major complication of solid organ transplantation requiring
prophylactic/therapeutic immunosuppression, which increases susceptibility of patients to …

Cohort profile: The Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS): A nationwide longitudinal cohort study of all solid organ recipients in Switzerland

S Stampf, NJ Mueller, C van Delden, M Pascual… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Purpose The Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS) is a prospective multicentre cohort
study which started to actively enrol study participants in May 2008. It takes advantage of …

The role of HLA and KIR immunogenetics in BK virus infection after kidney transplantation

M Burek Kamenaric, V Ivkovic, I Kovacevic Vojtusek… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
BK virus (BKV) is a polyomavirus with high seroprevalence in the general population with an
unremarkable clinical presentation in healthy people, but a potential for causing serious …

[HTML][HTML] Cohort profile: Cohort profile: The Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS): A nationwide longitudinal cohort study of all solid organ recipients in Switzerland

S Stampf, NJ Mueller, C van Delden, M Pascual… - BMJ Open, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose The Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (STCS) is a prospective multicentre cohort
study which started to actively enrol study participants in May 2008. It takes advantage of …