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Apoptosis

Please Note: Due to time constraints, the text part of this page has not been updated for some time. However, references are added reasonably frequently.


As Czech et al. (2000) have recently stated in their review article: ".....several lines of evidence support a role of apoptosis in the massive neuronal loss observed (inAD) ."E.g., see Anderson et al. (2000)and other references .

Yuan and Yankner (2000) report in Nature that neuronal apoptosis has a potentially important role in neurodegenerative diseases (as well as an involvement in the 'sculpturing' of the developing brain). They suggest that the precise elucidation of such neuronal cell death might provide additional points for therapeutic interventions.

While there is no doubt that death is the ultimate fate of at least a significant proportion of AD-affected neurons, there is still much debate about the nature of this death. There are those (del Rio and Velez-Pardo, 2001) who dispute that the involvement of apoptosis in AD has been truly confirmed, as the more terminal phases, such as chromatin condensation, apoptotic bodies, and blebbing, are rarely (except e.g. Su et al., 1994) seen in AD. However, most researchers appear to agree that some sort of apoptosis occurs, albeit, perhaps, in a different form from that occurring in normal tissues.

Although there is apparent consensus that some form of apoptosis takes place, the latter is but one of an increasing number of programmed cell death (PCD) mechanisms that can occur in cells and that may be triggered concurrently. These latter have recently been reviewed (Leist and Jäättelä, 2001) ) with the conclusion that, specifically in regard to neurons, there appear to be extra controls for caspase activation and that caspase-independent death pathways may be preferentially-activated.

The stimulation of mitotic events in AD-affected neurons may well contribute to this apoptosis (e.g. see Mattson, 2000; Offen et al., 2000; Yuan and Yankner, 2000).

Pin1's possible involvements in neuronal apoptosis

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Some Related References

N.B. Free Medical Journals online now at: http://www.freemedicaljournals.com/
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