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Recent experiments suggest that apoptotic mechanisms are involved in neuronal cell death after ischemic injury. Although the exact mechanism that triggers activation of apoptotic machinery remains uncertain, in vitro studies revealed that forced expression of cell cycle-related proteins induced apoptosis. Thus, aberrant expression of such proteins might be related to ischemic neuronal death. In the present experiment, we investigated expression of cell cycle-related proteins, i.e., cyclin B1, cyclin D1, cdk4, and PCNA, in rat brain after transient MCA occlusion, and compared the temporal profile of the results with that of TUNEL study, which detects double strand breaks in DNA. There were no immunoreactivities for cyclin B1, cyclin D1, and PCNA in the brain with and without ischemia. As for cdk4, however, it became present at 1 and 3 days of reperfusion after 2 h of ischemia. On the other hand, TUNEL positive cells appeared as early as 3 h of reperfusion, which peaked at 1 and 3 days. These results indicate that aberrant expression of cdk4, but not cyclin B1, cyclin D1 or PCNA, actually takes place in the brain after MCA occlusion, but this is not the causative mechanism of apoptotic cell death in the brain with ischemia.
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PMID:DNA fragmentation precedes aberrant expression of cell cycle-related protein in rat brain after MCA occlusion. 1055 94

Deletions of the 2q37 region are associated with a recognizable pattern of MCA/MR so-called the AHO-like syndrome. Brachydactyly is a variable but characteristic feature of this clinical entity. Here we report on five cases of cytogenetically visible de novo deletions of this 2q37 chromosome region. Using FISH, we characterized at the molecular level the breakpoints of these deletions using a set of 15 BACs, PACs and YACs. In four patients, terminal deletions of variable size ranged between 6.2 and 10 Mb. The fifth patient had an interstitial deletion with an AHO-like phenotype including brachydactyly. These findings when compared to previous observations allowed us to narrow down the brachydactyly critical region between BACs RP11-585E12 and RP11-351E10. It contains HDAC4 and STK25 candidate genes loci.
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PMID:Molecular cytogenetic analysis of five 2q37 deletions: refining the brachydactyly candidate region. 1676 27