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Extracellular ATP induces phosphatidylserine externalization earlier than nuclear apoptotic events in thymocytes
Marie-Pierre Courageot1, Sandrine Lepine, Francoise Giraud
1Biomembranes et Messagers Cellulaires, CNRS-UMR 8619, Université Paris XI, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|December 18, 2002
Abstract:
The present study shows for the first time that ATP(ec) induces a very early PS exposure in thymocytes and that this process can be induced in the absence of Ca(2+) influx and caspase activation.