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"The change in morphology and behavior of a mature or immature natural killer T cell resulting from exposure to a mitogen, cytokine, chemokine, cellular ligand, or an antigen for which it is specific." [ISBN:0781735149, PMID:12154375, PMID:9133426]
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NK T cell activation
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NK T lymphocyte activation, NK T-cell activation, NK T-lymphocyte activation, NKT cell activation, NT cell activation, natural T cell activation, natural killer T cell activation
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Note that NK T cells are a distinct lineage of T cells expressing natural killer cell markers and having T cell receptors characterized by the usage of a restricted repetoire of variable region gene segments.
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