Fas/Fas ligand signaling during gestational T cell development

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3766-3775

  Fleck, Martin ^a,b,c   Zhou, Tong ^b,c   Tatsuta, Toru ^b,c,d   Yang, Pingar ^b,c   Wang, Zheng ^b,c   Mountz, John D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d DAIICHI SANKYO CO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; FAS LIGAND; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HELPER CELL; MESSENGER RNA SYNTHESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; THYMOCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FAS LIGAND PROTEIN; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GESTATIONAL AGE; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED MRL LPR; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PREGNANCY; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032522638     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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