Susceptibility and resistance to antigen-induced apoptosis in the thymus of transgenic mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 5397-5403

  Tarazona, Raquel ^a   Williams, Owen ^a   Moskophidis, Demetrius ^a   Smyth, Lesley A ^a   Tanaka, Yujiro ^a   Murdjeva, Marianna ^a   Wack, Andreas ^a   Mamalaki, Clio ^a   Kioussis, Dimitris ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; DEXAMETHASONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RESISTANCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; APOPTOSIS; CLONAL DELETION; DEXAMETHASONE; FETUS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEOPROTEINS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND; TIME FACTORS; VIRAL CORE PROTEINS;

EID: 0032103046     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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