immature natural killer cell
A natural killer cell that is developmentally immature and expresses natural killer cell receptors (NKR). [ http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000031 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12457618 GOC:add http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0781735149&isbn=1/ ]
Synonyms: immature NK cell
Term info
In mouse the NKR are Ly49 molecules and in human these cells express KIR molecules.
p-NK