Lymphoid cell accumulation in salivary glands of autoimmune MRL mice can be due to impaired apoptosis

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 373-378

  Skarstein, K ^a   Nerland, A H ^a   Eidsheim, M ^a   Mountz, J D ^b   Jonsson, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAS ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; LYMPHOID CELL; MONONUCLEAR CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVARY GLAND; SJOEGREN SYNDROME;

EID: 0030879171     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1997.d01-142.x     Document Type: Article

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