The directed killing of a target cell by a leukocyte. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11911826 GOC:add https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0781735149 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/go/references/0000022 ]
Synonyms: immune cell mediated cell killing leucocyte mediated cytotoxicity immune cell mediated cytotoxicity immune cell mediated cell death
Term information
Note that this term and its children describe contact-dependent killing of target cells by lymphocytes and myeloid cells of the immune system.
Term relations
- cell killing
- leukocyte mediated immunity
- in taxon only Vertebrata
- process has causal agent some leukocyte
- only in taxon some Vertebrata