Québec City, Canada, October 3, 2012 - Aeterna Zentaris Inc. (NASDAQ: AEZS) (TSX: AEZ) (the "Company") today announced that the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company ("Common Shares") have been consolidated (the "Consolidation") on a six (6) to one (1) basis effective as of October 2, 2012. The purpose of the Consolidation is to enable the Company to attempt to regain compliance with NASDAQ's minimum bid price requirement.

The Company has received conditional approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange ("TSX") to effect the Consolidation and has provided notification of the Consolidation to The NASDAQ Stock Market ("NASDAQ"). Subject to final confirmation by TSX and NASDAQ, it is expected that the post-Consolidation Common Shares will begin trading on each of NASDAQ and TSX at the opening of markets on or about October 5, 2012 under its current NASDAQ and TSX trading symbols, "AEZS" and "AEZ", respectively, under the new post-Consolidation CUSIP number of 007975303.

OK, c'est fait!
update cotations12 set cote=round(cote * 6,4) where valeur = 130 and jour < '2012-10-05';

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jean-marie