Natural killer cell lines in tumor immunotherapy

Min Cheng1, Jian Zhang2, Jiangqi Wen2, Yongyan Chen1, Zhigang Tian1
1Institute of Immunology, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and School of Life Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
2Institute of Immunopharmacology and Immunotherapy, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shandong University, Jinan, China

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