Nuclear Flow FISH: Isolation of cell nuclei improves the determination of telomere lengths

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 230-235

  Wieser, Matthias ^a   Stadler, Guido ^a   Böhm, Ernst ^a   Borth, Nicole ^a   Katinger, Hermann ^a   Grillari, Johannes ^a,b   Voglauer, Regina ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b BMT BioMolecular Therapeutics   (Austria)

^c Haus B   (Austria)

Author keywords

Autofluorescence; Flow FISH analysis; Nuclear flow FISH; PNA probe; Senescence; Telomere length

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOFLUORESCENCE; CELL ISOLATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KIDNEY CELL; KIDNEY EPITHELIUM; NUCLEIC ACID PROBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TELOMERE;

CELL AGING; CELL NUCLEUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; KIDNEY; TELOMERE;

EID: 31544470600     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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