Suppression of epithelial apoptosis and delayed mammary gland involution in mice with a conditional knockout of Stat3

Genes and Development

Volumn 13, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2604-2616

  Chapman, Rachel S ^a   Lourenco, Paula C ^a   Tonner, Elizabeth ^d   Flint, David J ^d   Selbert, Stefan ^a   Takeda, Kiyoshi ^b   Akira, Shizuo ^b   Clarke, Alan R ^a   Watson, Christine J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Conditional knockout; Mammary involution; Stat3

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL X; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; SOMATOMEDIN C; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT5 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUNCTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; INVOLUTION; MAMMARY GLAND; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BCL-2-ASSOCIATED X PROTEIN; BCL-X PROTEIN; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P21; CYCLINS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; STAT1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033214903     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.13.19.2604     Document Type: Article

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