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The involvement of apoptosis in neurodegeneration can be detected by quantifying the apoptotic proteins in hippocampal lysate. Apoptosis can occur due to the overproduction of apoptotic proteins under the influence of external trigger or due to the overexpression of the apoptotic genes. Thus, the imbalance in the production of apoptotic proteins can be quantified using the Western blotting technique and the overexpression of apoptotic genes in hippocampal DNA can be quantified using the real-time quantification of mRNA expression of the apoptotic proteins. Here we provide the methodology of detecting the apoptosis-related proteins like Bax and Bcl-2 and their mRNA expression in hippocampal neurodegeneration. In this chapter, we have described the methodology for quantification of mRNA expression of these apoptosis-related proteins in the hippocampal lysate using the real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) technique and the methodology of detection and characterization of respective protein expression in the hippocampal lysate using the Western blotting technique.
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Rawat, K., Gautam, V., Sandhu, A., Saha, L. (2024). Detection and Characterization of Apoptosis-Related Proteins in Hippocampal Neurodegeneration: From mRNA Expression to Protein Quantification. In: Ray, S.K. (eds) Neuroprotection. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2761. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3662-6_22
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