title: Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer of Bcl-xL prevents cell death in primary neuronal culture of the rat.
abstract: Bcl-xL is a Bcl-2-related gene that regulates programmed cell death in a bcl-2-independent fashion. It is expressed in tissues containing long-surviving postmitotic cells, such as neurons in adult brains. To investigate the possibility of gene therapy for transferring this anti-apoptotic gene into the neuron for the treatment of vascular occlusive or neurodegenerative diseases, we examined the effect of a replication-deficient recombinant adenovirus vector coding human Bcl-xL gene on the augmentation of the survival of primarily-cultured rat neuronal cells in vitro. Immunoblot analysis revealed that primarily-cultured neuronal cells were successfully infected and transferred with this gene by recombinant adenovirus vector with high transduction efficiency. Bcl-xL gene transfer to the primarily-cultured neurons could prevent these cells from cell death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery and Clinical Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Matsuoka
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yukawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hamada
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akimoto
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miyatake
mesh_terms: D000256:Adenoviridae / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis / Q000502:physiology; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000502:physiology; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D018014:Gene Transfer Techniques; D005822:Genetic Vectors; D006801:Humans; D009474:Neurons / Q000502:physiology*; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2 / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D051020:bcl-X Protein
chemical_list: C494811:BCL2L1 protein, human; C494813:Bcl2l1 protein, rat; D019253:Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2; D051020:bcl-X Protein