Bcl-2 can rescue T lymphocyte development in Interleukin-7 receptor-deficient mice but not in Mutant rag-1-/- mice

Cell

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1011-1019

  Maraskovsky, Eugene ^a   O'Reilly, Lorraine A ^b   Teepe, Mark ^a   Corcoran, Lynn M ^b   Peschon, Jacques J ^a   Strasser, Andreas ^b  

^a AMGEN INC   (United States)

^b ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANTIGEN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 7; INTERLEUKIN 7 RECEPTOR; INTERLEUKIN RECEPTOR; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; MITOGENIC AGENT; PROTEIN BCL 2; RAG 1 PROTEIN; RAG-1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; C57BL MOUSE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPH NODE; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUTAGENESIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; STEM CELL; THYMUS; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; ANTIGENS, CD; APOPTOSIS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, RAG-1; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-7; LYMPH NODES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MITOGENS; MUTAGENESIS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-7; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPLEEN; STEM CELLS; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031587875     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80289-5     Document Type: Article

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