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  • Title: Apoptosis and necrosis after reversible focal ischemia: an in situ DNA fragmentation analysis.
    Author: Charriaut-Marlangue C, Margaill I, Represa A, Popovici T, Plotkine M, Ben-Ari Y.
    Journal: J Cereb Blood Flow Metab; 1996 Mar; 16(2):186-94. PubMed ID: 8594049.
    Abstract:
    Apoptosis is one of the two forms of cell death and occurs under a variety of physiological and pathological conditions. Cells undergoing apoptotic cell death reveal a characteristic sequence of cytological alternations including membrane blebbing and nuclear and cytoplasmic condensation. Early activation of an endonuclease has been previously demonstrated after a transient focal ischemia in the rat brain Charriaut-Marlangue C, Margaill I, Plotkine M, Ben-Ari Y (1995) Early endonuclease activation following reversible focal ischemia. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab 15:385-388). We now show that a significant number of striatal and cortical neurons, exhibited chromatin condensation, nucleus segmentation, and apoptotic bodies increasing with recirculation time, as demonstrated by in situ labeling of DNA breaks in cryostat sections. Apoptotic nuclei were also detected in the horizontal limb diagonal band, accumbens nucleus and islands of Calleja. Several necrotic neurons, in which random DNA fragmentation occurs, were also shown at 6 h recirculation, in the ischemic core. Further investigation with hematoxylin/eosin staining revealed that apoptotic nuclei were present in cells with a large and swelled cytoplasm and in cells with an apparently well-preserved cytoplasm. These two types of cell death were reminiscent of those described in developmental cell death. Our data suggested that apoptosis may contribute to the expansion of the ischemic lesion.
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