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Curcumin facilitates a transitory cellular stress response in Trembler-J mice.
Human molecular genetics - 1 Dec 2013
Okamoto Yuji, Pehlivan Davut, Wiszniewski Wojciech, Beck Christine R, Snipes G Jackson, Lupski James R, Khajavi Mehrdad
Abstract excerpt
We have previously shown that oral administration of curcumin significantly decreases the percentage of apoptotic Schwann cells and partially mitigates the severe neuropathy phenotype of the Trembler-J (Tr-J) mouse model in a dose-dependent manner. Here we compared the gene expression in sciatic nerves of 2-week-old pups and adult Tr-J with the same age groups of wild-type mice and found a significant increase in...
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