Article
bcl-2 deficiency in mice leads to pleiotropic abnormalities: accelerated lymphoid cell death in thymus and spleen, polycystic kidney, hair hypopigmentation, and distorted small intestine.
Cancer research - 15 Jan 1995
Kamada S, Shimono A, Shinto Y, Tsujimura T, Takahashi T, Noda T, Kitamura Y, Kondoh H, Tsujimoto Y
Abstract excerpt
Transgenic mice homozygously lacking in the bcl-2 gene were generated using homologous recombination in embryonal stem cells. The complete absence of Bcl-2 alpha and -beta proteins did not interfere with normal embryonic development. Abnormalities became evident after birth, although the severity varied among homozygous null mice, bcl-2-/- mice displayed pleiotropic abnormalities similar to those in the...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Animals
- Cell Death
- Female
- Gene Deletion
- Hair Color
- Intestine, Small
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C3H
- Mice, Inbred C57BL