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Inducer of apoptosis in animal

Kyle Legate via methods%40net.bio.net (by legatek from hotmail.com)
Tue Feb 19 13:19:25 EST 2008


wxfhome from gmail.com wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I want to test a method which can detect apoptosis in mice, and I do
> not know how to induce apoptosis in mice. Could anyone give some
> suggestions about the inducer and protocol? I see H2O2 can induce
> apoptosis in cell culture.
> 
I'm not sure that inducing apoptosis in a whole mouse would pass ethics 
boards. I know they wouldn't see it as necessary. Select a tissue which 
is known to have a significant amount of natural apoptosis, like the 
skin during hair follicle catagen (around 8 weeks after birth) or the 
mammary gland sometime after weaning, during involution, and test your 
method on those samples.


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