Apoptosis sensitivity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia is determined by endogenous endonuclease content and relative expression of BCL-2 and BAX

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 156, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 2624-2630

  McConkey, David J ^a,c   Chandra, Joya ^a   Wright, Susan ^a   Plunkett, William ^a   McDonnell, Timothy J ^a   Reed, John C ^b   Keating, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; ENDONUCLEASE; FLUDARABINE; MITOXANTRONE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOCYTE DEPLETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; DNA, NEOPLASM; ENDONUCLEASES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, CHRONIC; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MITOXANTRONE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; VIDARABINE;

EID: 0029897734     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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