“…Genes with a positive effect on apoptosis include CASP8, an initiator caspase involved in death receptor-mediated apoptosis stimulated by FasL, TNF␣ or tumour necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (Mocarski et al, 2011;Monie and Bryant, 2015); TG2, a multifunctional gene that has been implicated in apoptotic cell clearance (Nadella et al, 2015); and RARA, which has been associated with neutrophil differentiation and apoptosis (Kastner and Chan, 2001). Among the genes related to anti-apoptotic activity, we observed upregulation of those coding for DHCR24, a gene that when is overexpressed can protect the cells from apoptosis induced by oxidative stress (Lu et al, 2008), A4, which delays the apoptotic rate of human neutrophils (Park et al, 2006), and ADORA2A, which induces a delay in spontaneous apoptosis of human neutrophils (Pliyev et al, 2014). Vaccines containing the same adjuvants as tested in the present study induced generation of numerous apoptotic neutrophils in the peritoneal cavity of turbot (Noia et al, 2014).…”