13416 IUPAC Gold Book - lymphokine-activated killer cell 10.1351/goldbook.13416 13416 current acronym: LAK synonyms: LAK cell, lymphocyte-activated killer cell 1 Killer (K) cell or natural killer (NK) cell activated in vitro by interleukin (IL)-2 to give enhanced killing of target cells. Killer (K) cell https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13361 interleukin (IL) https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13338 natural killer (NK) cell https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13499 target cells https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/13727 PAC, 2012, 84, 1113. 'IUPAC glossary of terms used in immunotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2012)' on page 1206 (https://doi.org/10.1351/PAC-REC-11-06-03) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13416/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13416/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/13416/plain Citation: 'lymphokine-activated killer cell' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.13416 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-07-29T17:35:52+00:00