who makes INF gamma?

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FA says Interferon gamma is made by NK cells, and UW says it is made by activated T cells. Are they both right?
 
IF gamma (and IL-2) are for cell mediated immunity, which would make T cells (and macrophages) the way to go.

Natural killer cells aren't on the humoral arm (for bacteria), so this would work as well, but it's not as clean of a connection. Fun fact: NK cells are used for detecting cancer at the 1 cellular stage, that's why researchers love them. Currently it takes 1 billion cells for the human eye to detect cancer, so you can see why this would be revolutionary in medicine.
 
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