Natural killer cell, SEM
Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a natural killer cell (NK) (purple) attacking a liver cancer cell. Natural killer cells, also known as large granular lymphocytes (LGL), are a type of Natural killer cells, also known as large granular lymphocytes (LGL), are a type of cytotoxic lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system that belong to the rapidly expanding family of known innate lymphoid cells (ILC) and represent NK cells provide rapid responses to virus-infected cells and other intracellular pathogens acting at around 3 days after infection, and also represent Magnification x 10000 at 10cm wide. Specimen courtesy of the Maini Lab. UCL. by STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
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