Cutting edge: A/WySnJ transitional B cells overexpress the chromosome 15 proapoptotic Blk gene and succumb to premature apoptosis

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 167, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 6069-6072

  Amanna, I J ^a   Clise Dwyer, K ^a   Nashold, F E ^a   Hoag, K A ^a   Hayes, C E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN BCMD; PROTEIN BLK; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DEATH; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 22; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; HOMEOSTASIS; HYPOGAMMAGLOBULINEMIA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

EID: 0035575728     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.11.6069     Document Type: Article

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