Stat3 activation is responsible for IL-6-dependent T cell proliferation through preventing apoptosis: Generation and characterization of T cell- specific stat3-deficient mice

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 4652-4660

  Takeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Kaisho, Tsuneyasu ^a   Yoshida, Nobuaki ^b   Takeda, Junji ^c   Kishimoto, Tadamitsu ^d   Akira, Shizuo ^a  

^a HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Child Health and Research Institute   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAT3 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE TARGETING; IMMUNOGENETICS; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOKINES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENE TARGETING; GENES, BCL-2; INTEGRASES; INTERLEUKIN-6; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; LYMPHOCYTE SPECIFIC PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE P56(LCK); MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; VIRAL PROTEINS;

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