Mycoplasma fermentans enhances concanavalin A-induced apoptosis of mouse splenic T cells

FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 103-109

  Shibata, Ken Ichiro ^a   Watanabe, Tsuguo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

AIDS; Apoptosis; Concanavalin A; Mycoplasma fermentans; T cell

Indexed keywords

CONCANAVALIN A;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; MOUSE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; CONCANAVALIN A; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MYCOPLASMA FERMENTANS; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0031038691     PISSN: 09288244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-8244(96)00111-3     Document Type: Article

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