background and objectives: apoptosis of eosinophils is of significant value in assessing the airway inflammation in patients with asthma. our purpose was to investigate the degree of expression of the bcl-2 protein in sputum eosinophils during acute asthma exacerbation and its relationship with exacerbation severity.    materials and methods: the study was carried out in mostafa khomeini hospit...

background and objectives: giant cell tumor of bone (gct) is often regarded as a benign tumor, but its clinical course is unpredictable, has a high rate of recurrence, and even can metastases and transform to a malignant tumor. histological features of the tumor often could not predict its future biologic behavior, so it is just called ''giant cell tumor'' without indicating malignancy or benig...

This study aims to explore the cytotoxic, apoptotic and autophagic effects of thymoquinone on human acute myeloid leukemia. The cytotoxic were determined with 3-(4, 5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2 5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) tests. B-cell lymphoma 2 associated X protein (Bax), (Bcl-2), caspase 3, mammalian target rapamycin (mTOR), phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K), kinase B (AKT) gene expr...

Excessive apoptosis of intervertebral disk cells and degeneration (IDD) is the prime cause low back pain. B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) adenovirus E1B 19 kDa interacting protein 3 (BNIP3), a member Bcl-2 family, are involved in cell autophagy apoptosis. The roles mechanisms BNIP3 unclear. In this study, primary rat were prepared to study effect overexpression on their counting kit (CCK)-8 assay sho...

The Bcl-2-family proteins have long been known for their role as key regulators of apoptosis. Overexpression various members the family is associated with oncogenesis. Its founding member, anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 regulates cell death at different levels, whereby emerged a major drug target to eradicate cancers through death. This resulted in development venetoclax, antagonist that acts BH3 mimetic...

Defects in apoptotic pathways can promote cancer cell survival and also confer resistance to antineoplastic drugs. One pathway being targeted for antineoplastic therapy is the anti-apoptotic B-cell lymphoma-2 (Bcl-2) family of proteins (Bcl-2, Bcl-XL, Bcl-w, Mcl-1, Bfl1/A-1, and Bcl-B) that bind to and inactivate BH3-domain pro-apoptotic proteins. Signals transmitted by cellular damage (includi...

• BIRD-2 is an IP 3 R-derived peptide targeting Bcl-2’s BH4 domain, thereby disrupting R/Bcl-2 complexes. causes caspase-dependent cell death in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma lines. elicits apoptotic independently of the pro-apoptotic Bcl-2-family members Bim, Bax and Bak. BIRD-2-induced relies on mitochondrial Ca 2+ uptake permeability transition pore opening. Anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 critically c...

  Background and Objectives: Apoptosis of eosinophils is of significant value in assessing the airway inflammation in patients with asthma. Our purpose was to investigate the degree of expression of the Bcl-2 protein in sputum eosinophils during acute asthma exacerbation and its relationship with exacerbation severity.    Materials and Methods: The study was carried out in Mostafa Khomeini Ho...