Interferon α–stimulated natural killer cells from patients with acute hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection recognize HCV-infected and uninfected hepatoma cells via DNAX …

KA Stegmann, NK Björkström, S Ciesek… - Journal of Infectious …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
… Here, we have used this system to study natural killer (NK) cell … Interferon (IFN) α is necessary
for natural killer (NK) cell … (A), IFN-γ (B), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) α (C) production of …

Immunomodulation of natural killer cell activity by flavone acetic acid: occurrence via induction of interferon α

RL Hornung, HA Young, WJ Urba… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 1988 - academic.oup.com
… Antibody neutralization studies indicated that FAA induced IFN of the α/β type, while … the
production of IFN a mRNA in splenic leukocytes. In vivo administration of anti-IFN α/β antibodies …

Genetic differences in the age-associated decrease in inducibility of natural killer cells by interferon-α

A Plett, DM Murasko - Mechanisms of ageing and development, 2000 - Elsevier
… mononuclear cells after interferon (IFN)-α/β … IFN-α/β-stimulated NK cytotoxicity compared
to adult mice. In contrast, adult and aged F 1 mice showed similar NK cytotoxicity after IFN-α/β …

Opposite effects of serotonin and interferon-α on the membrane potential and function of human natural killer cells

T Oláh, I Ocsovszki, Y Mándi, R Pusztai… - In Vitro Cellular & …, 2005 - Springer
natural human interferon-c~ (IFN-c 0 partially eliminates this effect. Because natural IFN-c~
might contain factors other than IFN… experiments with recombinant human interferon-c~ (rhIFN…

Interferon alpha 2b treatment of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2: modulation of natural killer cell

GG Garzetti, A Ciavattini, C Romanini… - Gynecologic and …, 1994 - karger.com
… By analyzing the percentage of the increase in basal natural killer activity after interferon
a 2b treatment, we observed a value of 44.1% in responder patients versus 30.3% in …

Interferon and natural killer activity in multiple myeloma. Lack of correlation between interferon‐induced enhancement of natural killer activity and clinical response to …

S Einhorn, A Ahre, H Blomgren… - … Journal of Cancer, 1982 - Wiley Online Library
Natural killer (NK) activity of peripheral lymphocytes was measured in 39 patients … interferon
(IFN) therapy. NK activity increased in a majority of patients following the first injection of IFN

Natural killer (NK) cells as a responder to interleukin 2 (IL 2). II. IL 2-induced interferon gamma production.

K Handa, R Suzuki, H Matsui, Y Shimizu… - Journal of immunology …, 1983 - journals.aai.org
… In the accompanying paper, we showed that natural killer (NK) … , interferon (IFN). In the
present study, therefore, we examined whether these cloned NK cells on their own produced IFN. …

The effects of general anesthesia and surgery on basal and interferon stimulated natural killer cell activity of humans

J Kutza, I Gratz, M Afshar, DM Murasko - Anesthesia & Analgesia, 1997 - journals.lww.com
… Implications: Natural killer cells can kill cancer cells and virally infected cells. This study …
decreased natural killer cell activity as assessed in the laboratory. This decreased natural killer

α-Interferon structure and natural killer cell stimulatory activity

BL Li, XX Zhao, XY Liu, HS Kim, K Raska Jr, JR Ortaldo… - Cancer research, 1990 - AACR
interferons. These results provide some insight into structure-activity relationships for stimulating
natural killer … to predict other activities for an individual IFN-a species. The observations …

hIFN-α gene modification augments human natural killer cell line anti-human hepatocellular carcinoma function

W Jiang, C Zhang, Z Tian, J Zhang - Gene Therapy, 2013 - nature.com
… tumor cells, human IFN-α gene-modified natural killer cell line (NKL) (NKL-IFNα) cells, which
could stably secrete IFN-α, were established. We investigated the natural cytotoxicity of NKL…