“…Stimulation and inhibition of expression of proand anti-apoptotic Bcl family members, respectively, with subsequent caspase activation has been implicated in TGF-b-induced apoptosis (Fig. 3) (Motyl et al, 1998;Francis et al, 2000;Chipuk et al, 2001;Kim et al, 2001). In addition, TGF-b-mediated induction of Id3 expression in primary B lymphocyte progenitors (Kee et al, 2001), TIEG in mink lung epithelial and Hep3B cells (Chalaux et al, 1999;Ribeiro et al, 1999), and TGFb-stimulated clone 22 (TSC-22) in gastric carcinoma cells (Ohta et al, 1997), have been implicated in apoptosis.…”