CD4+CD8+ thymocytes are induced to cell death by a small dose of puromycin via ER stress

Cellular Immunology

Volumn 260, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 21-27

  Oguma, Takemi ^a   Ono, Takeshi ^a   Kajiwara, Toshimitsu ^b   Sato, Masaki ^a   Miyahira, Yasushi ^a   Arino, Hiroshi ^a   Yoshihara, Yasuo ^a   Tadakuma, Takushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; CD4+CD8+ thymocytes; ER stress; Puromycin

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 12; CASPASE INHIBITOR; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOSE REGULATED PROTEIN 78; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL XL; PUROMYCIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; BCL-X PROTEIN; CELL LINE; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG SYNERGISM; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, BCL-2; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; MICE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; PUROMYCIN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 70350359471     PISSN: 00088749     EISSN: 10902163     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cellimm.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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