Simultaneous Detection of DAB and Methyl Green Signals on Apoptotic Nuclei by Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 367-376

  Itoh, Johbu ^a,b   Umemura, Shinobu ^a   Hasegawa, Hideaki ^a   Yasuda, Masanori ^a   Takekoshi, Susumu ^a   Osamura, Yoshiyuki R ^a   Watanabe, Keiichi ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CLSM; DAB; Methyl green fluorescence; Rat small intestine; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

4 DIMETHYLAMINOAZOBENZENE; DEOXYURIDINE TRIPHOSPHATE PYROPHOSPHATASE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; METHYL GREEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DNA DEGRADATION; EPITHELIUM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; HISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CRYPT; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SIGNAL DETECTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0242626821     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.36.367     Document Type: Article

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