... proteins Bax and Bak, caspaseactivation and cell death [2,3]. In addition, the physi-ological platelet agonist thrombin also induces Bid,Bax and Bak translocation to the mitochondria and endogenous ... various time points (5, 10, 20,30 and 90 min and 6, 8 and 24 h) after treatment withnon-opsonized zymosan A or OPZ. The main changeswere detected after 30, 90 min and 24 h: only the resultsobtained ... pointsafter treatments (T0, 30, 90 min and 24 h).Mitochondrial membrane potential in living cellsThe mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) of control and treated cells was studied using 5-5¢,6-6¢-tetrachloro-1,1¢,3,3¢-tetraethylbenzimidazol-carbocyanine...