Fractin immunostaining for the detection of apoptotic cells and apoptotic bodies in formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded tissue

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 619-620

  Suurmeijer, Albert J H ^a   Van Der Wijk, Jettie ^a   Van Veldhuisen, Dirk J ^a   Yang, Fusheng ^b   Cole, Greg M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE; CYTOKERATIN 18; PARAFFIN; PROTEINASE K; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; COLON ADENOCARCINOMA; DNA DEGRADATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACTINS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEOPLASMS; PARAFFIN EMBEDDING; STAINING AND LABELING; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 0032963464     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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