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To be or not to be: Bax provides some answers

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It was established using genetically-altered mice that the protein BAX is necessary for cell death to occur in NGF-dependent peripheral neurons as well as axotomized central neurons.

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Shivers, B. To be or not to be: Bax provides some answers. Mol Psychiatry 2, 290 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.mp.4000241

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