Antigen activation rescues recent thymic emigrants from programmed cell death in the BB rat

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 5757-5764

  Ramanathan, Sheela ^a   Norwich, Ken ^b   Poussier, Philippe ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DEATH; CELL MIGRATION; CHROMOSOME 4; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LYMPHOID ORGAN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MITOSIS INDEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL AGING; LYMPHOPENIA; MITOSIS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BB; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032526353     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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