Natural Killer Cell Antibody-Dependent Cellular Cytotoxicity (ADCC) Activity Against Plasmodium falciparum-Infected Red Blood Cells.

Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) is a mechanism of cell defense that bridges the innate and adaptive immune systems. ADCC has been found to be a major route of immune protection against both viral infections and cancer. Recently, natural killer (NK) cell-mediated ADCC has been shown as a mechanism of parasite clearance and protection against malaria (Hart et al.