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How to wake a killer

Nature Immunology volume 20, pages 1561–1563 (2019)Cite this article

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Manipulating the mitochondrial morphology of exhausted tumor-derived NK cells restores their metabolic fitness and function.

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Fig. 1: Common phenotype of mitochondrial dysfunction in TINK cells and hypoxic NK cells.

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