Abstract
Proper lymphocyte apoptosis is critical for the maintenance of immune system homeostasis, and evaluation of cell death is useful in a number of clinical and research settings. We describe here how to evaluate the integrity of the intrinsic pathway of lymphocyte apoptosis triggered by starvation for IL-2 or other survival cytokines.
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Oliveira, J.B. (2013). Evaluation of IL-2-Withdrawal-Induced Apoptosis in Human T Lymphocytes. In: Snow, A., Lenardo, M. (eds) Immune Homeostasis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 979. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-290-2_3
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