Detection of DNA Strand Breaks in Individual Apoptotic Cells by the in Situ Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase and Nick Translation Assays

Cancer Research

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 1945-1951

  Gorczyca, Wojciech ^a   Gong, Jianping ^a   Darzynkiewicz, Zbigniew ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSACRINE; CAMPTOTHECIN; CELL DNA; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; DNA TOPOISOMERASE; FOSTRIECIN; TENIPOSIDE;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL LABELING; CELL STRAIN HL 60; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DNA CONTENT; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; ENZYME ASSAY; ENZYME INHIBITION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

APOPTOSIS; CAMPTOTHECIN; DEOXYURACIL NUCLEOTIDES; DNA DAMAGE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMAN; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TENIPOSIDE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0027269557     PISSN: 00085472     EISSN: 15387445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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