Constitutive expression of Bcl-x(L) or Bcl-2 prevents peptide antigen-induced T cell deletion but does not influence T cell homeostasis after a viral infection

European Journal of Immunology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 560-569

  Petschner, Franziska ^a   Zimmermann, Christine ^a   Strasser, Andreas ^b   Grillot, Didier ^c   Nunez, Gabriel ^c   Pircher, Hanspeter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bcl 2; Bcl x(L); Memory; T cell; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BCL 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLONAL ANERGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOMEOSTASIS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONAL ANERGY; CLONAL DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLYCOPROTEINS; HOMEOSTASIS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS; LYMPHOCYTIC CHORIOMENINGITIS VIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TRANSGENES; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0031938413     PISSN: 00142980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-4141(199802)28:02<560::AID-IMMU560>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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