Interleukin-15 protects from lethal apoptosis in vivo

Nature Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1124-1128

  Bulfone Paus, Silvia ^a   Ungureanu, Daniela ^a   Pohl, Thomas ^a   Lindner, Gerd ^b   Paus, Ralf ^b   Rückert, René ^a,b   Krause, Hans ^a   Kunzendorf, Ulrich ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 15;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SYNTHESIS; SPLEEN CELL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THYMOCYTE; TONSIL;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; DEXAMETHASONE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; INTERLEUKIN-15; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TONSIL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0030762744     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm1097-1124     Document Type: Article

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