How Malaria Infection Activates Natural Killer Cells (IMAGE)

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How Malaria Infection Activates Natural Killer Cells

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This is a microvesicle from malaria-infected erythrocyte fuses with NK cell membrane. Green is NK cell membrane. Red is microvesicle. When they fuse they become yellow/orange.

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Ye Weijian, et al. (2018) Microvesicles from malariainfected red blood cells activate natural killer cells via MDA5 pathway.

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