The significance of these results is twofold: (i) two different technologies (RT-RTqPCR and Gene Meter) have now demonstrated increased transcript abundances and these increases have now been reported in three organisms (human, zebrafish and mouse); and (ii) there might be significant overlap in gene transcripts that increase in abundance in death as we have showed with myosin- and matrix metalloprotease genes, which warrants further studies using other vertebrates.
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