Assessment of apoptosis occurring in spleen cells from nitrogen mustard-treated or gamma-irradiated mice

Anticancer Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5 A, 1998, Pages 3289-3294

  Hugel, Benedicte ^a   Weltin, Denis ^a   Holl, Vincent ^a   Marchal, Jean ^a   Dufour, Patrick ^a   Freyssinet, Jean Marie ^a   Bischoff, Pierre L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^b Institut d'Hematologie et d'Immunologie   (France)

Author keywords

Alkylating agent; Circulating microparticles; Immunosuppression; Ionizing radiation; Lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

CHLORMETHINE; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; INVOLUTION; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN CELL; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS, ALKYLATING; APOPTOSIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTES; MACROPHAGE ACTIVATION; MALE; MECHLORETHAMINE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; ORGAN SIZE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINES; SPLEEN; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 0031763888     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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