Adoptive Immunotherapy Strategies with Cytokine-Induced Killer (CIK) Cells in the Treatment of Hematological Malignancies

Cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells are a heterogeneous population of immune effector cells that feature a mixed T- and Natural killer (NK) cell-like phenotype in their terminally-differentiated CD3+CD56+ subset. The easy availability, high proliferation rate and widely major histocompatibility com...

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Main Authors: Frederic Carsten Schmeel, Leonard Christopher Schmeel, Sanna-Marie Gast, Ingo G. H. Schmidt-Wolf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-08-01
Series:International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/15/8/14632