Its key functions include: Antioxidant Defense: The antioxidant glutathione neutralizes free radicals and reduces oxidative stress, preventing cellular damage
Peripheral-nerve transection and crush models Here a rodent sciatic (or facial) nerve is cut or crushed, then repair is tracked with the sciatic functional index (a walking-track measurement of toe spread), electromyography, and histomorphometry counting the number, diameter, and myelination of regenerating axons
Follow-up cadence is individualized and determined by the prescribing clinician
The pseudo-caspase FLIP (L) regulates cell fate following p53 activation
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The critical organelle affected is the mitochondria, whose disruption induces reduction in ATP generation and apoptosis or necrosis [51]