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Compare and contrast the immune response of NK cells and cytotoxic T cells during primary infection...

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Compare and contrast the immune response of NK cells andcytotoxic T cells during primary infection and subsequentinfections. Include a comment on the magnitude, kinetics andmechanism of activation observed

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Natural Killer NK Cellsare lymphocytes in the same family as T and B cells and they arebest known for killing virally infected cells and detecting andcontrolling early signs of cancer NK cells are also found in theplacenta and may play an important role in pregnancy NK cells havethe ability to kill tumour cells without any priming or prioractivation in contrast to cytotoxic Tcells which need priming by antigen presenting cells Theyare named for this natural killingThe role of NK cells is analogous to that ofcytotoxic T cells in the vertebrate adaptive immuneresponse NK cells provide rapid responses to virusinfected cellsacting at around 3 days after infection    See Answer
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