Quantitative assessment of cardiac myocyte apoptosis in tissue sections using the fluorescence-based tunel technique enhanced with counterstains

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 228, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 23-28

  Scarabelli, T M ^a   Knight, R A ^b   Rayment, N B ^a   Cooper, T J ^b   Stephanou, A ^c   Brar, B K ^c   Lawrence, K M ^c   Santilli, G ^b   Latchman, D S ^c   Baxter, G F ^a   Yellon, D M ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Heart; Ischaemia and reperfusion injury; TUNEL method

Indexed keywords

PROPIDIUM IODIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; ISOLATED HEART; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPERFUSION INJURY;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; COLORING AGENTS; DESMIN; DNA FRAGMENTATION; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; MYOCARDIAL REPERFUSION INJURY; MYOCARDIUM; PROPIDIUM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 0032705566     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1759(99)00090-3     Document Type: Article

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