MICA and neoplasm: It was shown that azacytidine and decitabine alone or combined with other drugs induced expression of the NKG2DLs MICA/B or UL16-binding proteins (ULBP) on various tumor cell lines (Rohner et al., 2007; Tang et al., 2008; Wu et al., 2009; Schmiedel et al., 2011).