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Motor neuron degeneration is attenuated in bax-deficient neurons in vitro.
Journal of neuroscience research - 1 Mar 1999
Bar-Peled O, Knudson M, Korsmeyer S J, Rothstein J D
Abstract excerpt
Apoptosis plays a major role in motor neuron survival during developmental cell death, after axotomy, and in motor neuron diseases. Bax is the first member of the bcl-2 family shown to promote apoptosis. In the present study, we used the bax-deficient mouse model to determine the role of bax in m...
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