Elevated caspase-3 activity in peripheral blood T cells coexists with increased degree of T-cell apoptosis and down-regulation of TCR zeta molecules in patients with gastric cancer

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 74-80

  Takahashi, A ^a   Kono, K ^a   Amemiya, H ^a   Iizuka, H ^a   Fujii, H ^a   Matsumoto, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 3; GAMMA INTERFERON; LIPOCORTIN 5; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY CD3; PROPIDIUM IODIDE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ZETA CHAIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL CIRCULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STOMACH CANCER; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANTIGENS, CD3; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELLS, CULTURED; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; INTERFERON TYPE II; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0035133095     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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