Apoptosis Within Spontaneously Accepted Mouse Liver Allografts: Evidence for Deletion of Cytotoxic T Cells and Implications for Tolerance Induction

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 4654-4661

  Qian, Shiguang ^a   Lu, Lina ^a   Fu, Fumin ^a   Li, Youping ^a   Li, Wei ^a   Starzl, Thomas E ^a   Fung, John J ^a   Thomson, Angus W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; INTERLEUKIN 2;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C3H MOUSE; C57BL MOUSE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; CYTOTOXICITY; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; SPLEEN;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CLONAL DELETION; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DNA FRAGMENTATION; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; INTERLEUKIN-2; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MICE, INBRED C57BL; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 0031570116     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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