Postmortem delay and temperature conditions affect the in situ end- labeling (ISEL) assay in brain tissue of mice

Clinical Neuropathology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 133-136

  Schallock, K ^a   Schulz Schaeffer, W J ^a   Giese, A ^a   Kretzschmar, H A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

apoptosis; autolysis; brain; in situ end labeling (ISEL); postmortem delay

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; DNA CLEAVAGE; HEAT SENSITIVITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; AUTOLYSIS; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA FRAGMENTATION; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STAINING AND LABELING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030958690     PISSN: 07225091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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