Bim-mediated apoptosis is not necessary for thymic negative selection to ubiquitous self-antigens

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 183, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 7761-7767

  Hu, Qian ^a   Sader, Alyssa ^a   Parkman, Julia C ^a   Baldwin, Troy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIM PROTEIN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; AUTOANTIGEN; BCL 2 LIKE PROTEIN 11; BCL-2-LIKE PROTEIN 11; HY ANTIGEN; LIGAND; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL SELECTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CLONE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL DEATH; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CLONE CELLS; FEMALE; H-Y ANTIGEN; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; LIGANDS; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 76249119276     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0902181     Document Type: Article

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