Evaluation of activatory and inhibitory natural killer cell receptors in non-segmental vitiligo: a flow cytometric study


Basak P. Y., Adiloglu A. K., Koc I. G., Tas T., Akkaya V. B.

JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY AND VENEREOLOGY, cilt.22, sa.8, ss.970-976, 2008 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)

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Background Recent observations established the role of altered cellular immunity and autoimmune hypothesis in the pathogenesis of vitiligo. There have been several reports discussing T-cell and natural killer (NK) cell populations, but NK cell receptors were not evaluated in vitiligo.