Adrenalectomy-induced apoptosis and glial responsiveness during ageing
Autor: | Nicole Bye, Nancy R. Nichols |
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Rok vydání: | 1998 |
Předmět: |
Male
Aging medicine.medical_specialty Programmed cell death medicine.medical_treatment Hippocampus DNA Fragmentation chemistry.chemical_compound Transforming Growth Factor beta Corticosterone Internal medicine Adrenal Glands Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein medicine Animals RNA Messenger In Situ Hybridization Glial fibrillary acidic protein biology General Neuroscience Dentate gyrus Adrenalectomy RNA Probes Rats Inbred F344 Rats Endocrinology nervous system chemistry Apoptosis Ageing Dentate Gyrus biology.protein Neuroglia |
Zdroj: | NeuroReport. 9:1179-1184 |
ISSN: | 0959-4965 |
Popis: | Cell death by apoptosis occurs in mature neurones of adult rat dentate gyrus following adrenalectomy. In these studies, apoptosis in the dentate gyrus was induced 3 days after adrenalectomy in male Fischer 344 rats ranging in age from 2-3 to 24-26 months. Glial fibrillary acidic protein and transforming growth factor-beta 1 mRNAs were increased in dentate gyrus of all age groups after adrenalectomy, but there was no effect of age on these responses. Furthermore, corticosterone treatment in the drinking water of adrenalectomized rats prevented both cell death and increases in glial mRNAs in all age groups that were tested (up to 16-18 months). Therefore, adrenalectomy-induced apoptosis can be used to study mechanisms of cell death and survival in aged brain. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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