Bcl6 is required for the IL-4-mediated rescue of the B cells from apoptosis induced by IL-21

Immunology Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 145-151

  Tsuruoka, Nobuhide ^a   Arima, Masafumi ^a   Arguni, Eggi ^a   Saito, Thoru ^a   Kitayama, Daisuke ^a   Sakamoto, Akemi ^a   Hatano, Masahiko ^a   Tokuhisa, Takeshi ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

B lymphocytes; Cellular differentiation; Lipopolysaccharide; Transcription factors

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; INTERLEUKIN 21; INTERLEUKIN 4; PROTEIN BAX; PROTEIN BCL 6; PROTEIN BCL XL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; BCL-X PROTEIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; INTERLEUKIN-4; INTERLEUKINS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL;

EID: 34249680903     PISSN: 01652478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imlet.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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