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M N Yurova1, A G Golubev2, S N Aleksakhina2
1N. N. Petrov National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia. yumarni@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We studied the state of the DNA repair system and apoptosis in young mice carrying heterozygous inactivating mutation in the NBS1 gene (c.1971insT, p.Arg658Stop). In the peripheral blood cells of 4-month-old NBS1insT males, the %DNA in the comet tail was higher by 10% than in wild-type mice (wt) (p<0.05). In hepatocytes of NBS1insT mice, the proportion of γH2AX+ nuclear regions marking DNA double-strand breaks was lower by 2 times than in wt mice (p<0.05), which can be an indicator of less efficient DNA repair. In the kidney tissue of NBS1insT mice, a tendency towards the proapoptotic ratio of Bax and Bcl-2 protein markers was revealed against the background of their reduced expression. Thus, the disturbances detected NBS1insT mice in young age suggest that this model is promising for further studies of carcinogenesis.
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