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Red nucleus neurons of Bcl-2 over-expressing mice are protected from cell death induced by axotomy
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Red nucleus neurons of Bcl-2 over-expressing mice are protected from cell death induced by axotomy

Linqiu Zhou, T Connors, Dong Chen, M Murray, A Tessler, P Kambin and R Saavedra
Neuroreport, v 10(16), pp 3417-3421
08 Nov 1999
PMID: 10599855

Abstract

The Bcl-2 proto-oncogene regulates apoptosis and prevents cell death. We studied the effect of Bcl-2 gene over-expression on the survival of axotomized red nucleus (RN) neurons after unilateral hemisection at cervical segment 4/5 (C4/5) in mice. Seventy-five percent of RN neurons survived in Bcl-2 over-expressing mice 1 or 2 months after surgery compared with only 55% of RN neurons in wild-type mice. However, Bcl-2 gene over-expression does not prevent lesion-induced shrinkage of RN neurons.

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