An Inherited Disorder of Lymphocyte Apoptosis: The Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome

Figure 3. Cell loss is the fraction of cycling T cells lost after 24 hours of Fas cross-linking by an agonistic monoclonal
antibody. Shown are the results obtained by using cycling T cells from normal controls ( ) and seven unrelated patients with
ALPS ( ).
Apoptosis after Fas (CD95) stimulation is impaired in patients with the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS).NormPt
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Ann Intern Med
April 6, 1999
vol. 130
no. 7
591-601