Resistance to apoptosis and elevated expression of bcl-2 in clonally expanded CD4+CD28- T cells from rheumatoid arthritis patients

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 161, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 1018-1025

  Schirmer, Michael ^a   Vallejo, Abbe N ^a   Weyand, Cornelia M ^a   Goronzy, Jörg J ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD28 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN;

ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONAL ANERGY; CLONOGENIC ASSAY; EFFECTOR CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MEMORY CELL; MOLECULAR CLONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANTIGENS, CD28; ANTIGENS, CD4; APOPTOSIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CELL LINE; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONE CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, NATURAL; IMMUNOPHENOTYPING; INTERLEUKIN-2; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0032528419     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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