A novel method for detecting apoptosis shows that hepatocytes undergo a time dependent increase in DNA cleavage and chromatin condensation which is augmented after TGF-β1 treatment

Cytometry

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 312-321

  Cain, Kelvin ^a   Inayat Hussain, Salmaan H ^a   Couet, Carole ^a   Qin, Hong Min ^b   Oberhammer, Franziska A ^a  

^a MRC TOXICOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; End labelling; Monolayers; Morphological assessment

Indexed keywords

4 [5 (4 METHYL 1 PIPERAZINYL)[2,5' BI 1H BENZIMIDAZOL] 2' YL]PHENOL; RECOMBINANT TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; LIVER CELL; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; DNA DAMAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; LIVER; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0029871999     PISSN: 01964763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0320(19960401)23:4<312::AID-CYTO7>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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