Mast cell apoptosis and survival

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 716, Issue , 2011, Pages 47-60

  Ekoff, Maria ^a   Nilsson, Gunnar ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BCL2 RELATED PROTEIN A1; BH3 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BAD; PROTEIN BCL 2; PROTEIN BCL W; PROTEIN BCL XL; PROTEIN MCL 1; STEM CELL FACTOR;

ALLERGIC ASTHMA; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; CELL FATE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTACT SENSITIZATION; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOREGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAST CELL; MASTOCYTOSIS; MEDIATOR RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; ANIMAL; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MASTOCYTOSIS;

EID: 79960914296     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9533-9_4     Document Type: Article

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