Experimental autoimmune myositis in the Lewis rat: Lack of spontaneous T-cell apoptosis and therapeutic response to glucocorticosteroid application

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-87

  Schneider, C ^a   Matsumoto, Y ^b   Kohyama, K ^b   Toyka, K V ^a   Hartung, H P ^a   Gold, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Methylprednisolone; Polymyositis; Therapy

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MALE; MUSCLE BIOPSY; NONHUMAN; POLYMYOSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CD8-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MUSCLES; NERVOUS SYSTEM AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE, EXPERIMENTAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0034632191     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-5728(00)00254-X     Document Type: Article

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