Increased activity of caspase 3 and caspase 8 in anti-Fas-induced apoptosis in lymphocytes from ageing humans

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-290

  Aggarwal, S ^a   Gupta, Sudhir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Anti Fas; Caspase 3; Caspase 8

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; FAS ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGENS, CD95; APOPTOSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASPASE 3; CASPASE 8; CASPASE 9; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; FAS-ASSOCIATED DEATH DOMAIN PROTEIN; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0032817658     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.00957.x     Document Type: Article

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