Polyamine-fas interactions: Inhibition of polyamine biosynthesis in MRL-lpr/lpr mice is associated with the up-regulation of fas mRNA in thymocytes

Autoimmunity

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 299-309

  Hsu, Hui Chen ^a,b,c   Thomas, Thresia ^a   Sigal, Leonard H ^a   Thomas, T J ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Difluolomethylornithine; ETn; Fas; MRL lpr lpr mice; Polyamines

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; EFLORNITHINE; FAS ANTIGEN; MESSENGER RNA; ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE; POLYAMINE; PUTRESCINE; SPERMIDINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; POLYAMINE SYNTHESIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 0344417936     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08916939908994750     Document Type: Article

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