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During development, sympathetic neurons are critically dependent on nerve growth factor (NGF) for survival. Neurons isolated from the superior cervical ganglia (SCG) of embryonic rodents and maintained for 1 week in vitro undergo programmed cell death in response to NGF deprivation. As the cells mature in vitro and in vivo, however, these neurons develop a resistance to NGF deprivation and become much less acutely dependent on NGF for survival. Using an in vitro model of neuronal maturation, we confirmed that SCG neurons maintained in culture for 3–4 weeks did not experience a dramatic loss in viability after NGF removal, yet they did undergo the initial biochemical and genetic changes elicited by NGF deprivation of young neurons. NGF deprivation of mature neurons produced rapid decreases in glucose uptake and protein and RNA synthesis rates, increased phosphorylation of c-Jun, and an increase in c-jun mRNA. Mature neurons, however, experienced a block in the cell death program before the final stages of the pathway activated in young neurons, which includes the induction of c-fos mRNA and characteristic apoptotic nuclear changes. This maturation-induced block was indistinguishable by these criteria from the block produced by Baxdeficiency. Expression of Bax in mature neurons restored the apoptotic pathway, such that after NGF removal,Bax-overexpressing mature neurons resumed the apoptotic program, including the induction of c-Fos and passage through a caspase checkpoint. Thus, a block in the apoptotic program at or near the BAX checkpoint accounts for the decreased dependence of mature neurons on neurotrophic factor to maintain survival.

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Analysis of the Mechanism of Loss of Trophic Factor Dependence Associated with Neuronal Maturation: A Phenotype Indistinguishable from<i>Bax</i>Deletion

Analysis of the Mechanism of Loss of Trophic Factor Dependence Associated with Neuronal Maturation: A Phenotype Indistinguishable fromBaxDeletion