Expression of an Inducible Type of Nitric Oxide (NO) Synthase in the Thymus and Involvement of NO in Deletion of TCR-Stimulated Double-Positive Thymocytes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4696-4703

  Tai, Xu Guang ^a   Toyo oka, Kazuhito ^a   Yamamoto, Norihiko ^a   Yashiro, Yumi ^a   Mu, Jie ^a   Hamaoka, Toshiyuki ^a   Fujiwara, Hiromi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; C3H MOUSE; CELL CLONE; CYTOLOGY; ENZYME INDUCTION; ENZYMOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; APOPTOSIS; CLONAL DELETION; CLONE CELLS; ENZYME INDUCTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0031569964     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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