False-positive apoptosis signal in mouse kidney and liver detected with TUNEL assay

Apoptosis

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 329-333

  Pulkkanen, K J ^a   Laukkanen, M O ^a   Naarala, J ^a   Yla Herttuala, S ^a  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

False positive; Immunocytochemistry; Kidney; Liver; Mouse; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CASPASE 3; DNA; KI 67 ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY CELL; LIVER CELL; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CASPASE 3; CASPASES; CELL DIVISION; DNA; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HEPATOCYTES; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; KIDNEY; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPLEEN; TESTIS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033761093     PISSN: 13608185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009631424351     Document Type: Article

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