T-cell apoptosis in inflammatory brain lesions: Destruction of T cells does not depend on antigen recognition

American Journal of Pathology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 715-724

  Bauer, Jan ^a   Bradl, Monika ^b   Hickey, William F ^c   Forss Petter, Sonja ^a   Breitschopf, Helene ^a   Linington, Chris ^b   Wekerle, Hartmut ^b   Lassmann, Hans ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYELIN ASSOCIATED GLYCOPROTEIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; OVALBUMIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROGLIA; NEUROECTODERM; NONHUMAN; PARENCHYMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

EID: 0031715518     PISSN: 00029440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9440(10)65615-5     Document Type: Article

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