INTERFERON-INDUCED ENHANCEMENT OF NEWBORN PIG NATURAL KILLING (NK) ACTIVITY
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 16 (4), 399-402
Abstract
The possible activation of Natural Killing (NK) activity by interferon (IFN) was studied in peripheral blood leukocytes of newborn piglets. It is reported that, although NK is very low during the first week of life, in vitro pretreatment of newborn leukocytes with semi-purified human .alpha. INF induces a significant NK enhancement. These data suggest that piglets have pre-NK cells which become fully cytotoxic when exposed to IFN.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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