Modulation of pro- and antiapoptotic molecules in double-positive (CD4 +CD8+) thymocytes following dexamethasone treatment

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 319, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 887-897

  Bianchini, Rodolfo ^a   Nocentini, Giuseppe ^a   Krausz, Ludovic Tibor ^a   Fettucciari, Katia ^a   Coaccioli, Stefano ^b   Ronchetti, Simona ^a   Riccardi, Carlo ^a,b  

^a Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIM PROTEIN; CERAMIDE GLUCOSYLTRANSFERASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DEXAMETHASONE; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE; NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL X; PROTEIN BCL XL; RIBONUCLEASE; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; THIOREDOXIN REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; DEXAMETHASONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, BCL-2; MICE; MICE, INBRED C3H; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA STABILITY; SPHINGOMYELINS; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33751179494     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.106.108480     Document Type: Article

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