Article
Autoimmune disease. A problem of defective apoptosis.
Arthritis and rheumatism - 1 Oct 1994
Mountz J D, Wu J, Cheng J, Zhou T
Abstract excerpt
Human autoimmune diseases share the common feature of an imbalance between the production and destruction of various cell types including lymphocytes (SLE), synovial cells (RA), and fibroblasts (scleroderma). Patients with SLE have increased levels of soluble Fas that inhibit proper apoptosis of lymphocytes. In animal models of autoimmune diseases, mutations of genes involved in apoptosis including Fas, Fas...
Topics
- Antigens, Surface
- Apoptosis
- Autoimmune Diseases
- Autoimmunity
- Cell Division
- Genes, myc
- Genes, p53
- Humans
- Mutation
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2
- fas Receptor
