Apaf-1 and caspase-9 are required for cytokine withdrawal-induced apoptosis of mast cells but dispensable for their functional and clonogenic death

Blood

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1872-1877

  Marsden, Vanessa S ^a   Kaufmann, Thomas ^a   O'Reilly, Lorraine A ^a   Adams, Jerry M ^a   Strasser, Andreas ^a  

^a WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOTIC PROTEASE ACTIVATING FACTOR 1; CASPASE 9; CYTOKINE; FC RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOTOXICITY; DNA DAMAGE; EMBRYO; FETUS; LYMPHOCYTE; MAST CELL; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EID: 33344456332     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 00064971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2005-05-2160     Document Type: Article

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