Apoptotic DNA fragmentation is detected by a semiquantitative ligation-mediated PCR of blunt DNA ends

Cell Death and Differentiation

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 66-75

  Staley, Kristina ^a   Blaschke, Anne J ^a,b   Chun, Jerold ^a,b  

^a San Diego   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; LMPCR; Nucleosomal ladders

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENDONUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DEGRADATION; INVERTEBRATE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; VERTEBRATE;

EID: 0031023614     PISSN: 13509047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.cdd.4400207     Document Type: Article

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