TY - JOUR AU - Sokolowski, Jennifer D. AU - Gamage, Kanchana K. AU - Heffron, Daniel S. AU - LeBlanc, Andrea C. AU - Deppmann, Christopher D. AU - Mandell, James W. PY - 2014 DA - 2014/02/07 TI - Caspase-mediated cleavage of actin and tubulin is a common feature and sensitive marker of axonal degeneration in neural development and injury JO - Acta Neuropathologica Communications SP - 16 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - Axon degeneration is a characteristic feature of multiple neuropathologic states and is also a mechanism of physiological neurodevelopmental pruning. The vast majority of in vivo studies looking at axon degeneration have relied on the use of classical silver degeneration stains, which have many limitations including lack of molecular specificity and incompatibility with immunolabeling methods. Because Wallerian degeneration is well known to involve cytoskeletal disassembly and because caspases are recently implicated in aspects of this process, we asked whether antibodies directed at caspase-generated neoepitopes of beta-actin and alpha-tubulin would be useful immunohistochemical markers of pathological and developmental axon degeneration. SN - 2051-5960 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/2051-5960-2-16 DO - 10.1186/2051-5960-2-16 ID - Sokolowski2014 ER -