Tnfaip8 is an essential gene for the regulation of glucocorticoid-mediated apoptosis of thymocytes

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 316-323

  Woodward, M J ^a   De Boer, J ^a   Heidorn, S ^a   Hubank, M ^a   Kioussis, D ^b   Williams, O ^a   Brady, H J M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Fetal thymic organ culture; Glucocorticoid; RNA interference; Tnfaip8

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA INDUCED PROTEIN 8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROTECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; DNA RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; DOWN REGULATION; DRUG SENSITIZATION; ESSENTIAL GENE; FETUS LIVER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE TARGETING; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RETROVIRUS INFECTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; RNA ISOLATION; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYMOCYTE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MICE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA INTERFERENCE; STROMAL CELLS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVATION; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

MURINAE;

EID: 74249100415     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: 14765403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/cdd.2009.125     Document Type: Article

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