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Populations of NGF-dependent neurones differ in their requirement for BAX to undergo apoptosis in the absence of NGF/TrkA signalling in vivo

Department of Preclinical Veterinary Sciences, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, Summerhall Square, Edinburgh EH9 1QH, UK

*Author for correspondence (e-mail: alun.davies{at}ed.ac.uk)

Accepted August 28, 2001

Reports that apoptosis within populations of neurotrophin-dependent neurones is virtually eliminated in BAX-deficient mice and that BAX-deficient neurones survive indefinitely in culture without neurotrophins have led to the view that BAX is required for the death of neurotrophin-deprived neurones. To further examine this assertion in vivo, we have studied two populations of NGF-dependent neurones during the period of naturally occurring neuronal death in mice that lack BAX, NGF or the NGF receptor TrkA, alone and in combination. In the superior cervical ganglion (SCG), naturally occurring neuronal death and the massive loss of neurones that took place in the absence of NGF or TrkA were completely prevented by elimination of BAX. However, in the trigeminal ganglion, naturally occurring neuronal death was only partly abrogated by the elimination of BAX, and although the massive neuronal death that took place in this ganglion in the absence of NGF or TrkA was initially delayed in embryos lacking BAX, this subsequently occurred unabated. Accordingly, BAX-deficient neurones survived in defined without NGF whereas BAX-deficient trigeminal neurones died in the absence of NGF. These results indicate that whereas BAX is required for the death of SCG neurones during normal development and when these neurones are deprived of NGF/TrkA signalling in vivo, the death of trigeminal ganglion neurones occurs independently of BAX when they are deprived of NGF/TrkA signalling. We conclude that BAX is not universally required for neuronal death induced by neurotrophin deprivation, but that there are major differences for the requirement for BAX among different populations of NGF-dependent neurones.

Key words: BAX, NGF, TrkA, Apoptosis, Sensory neurone, Sympathetic neurone, Mouse

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