Method of specific detection of apoptosis using formamide-induced DNA denaturation assay

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 683-692

  Ito, Yuko ^a   Shibata, Masa Aki ^a   Kusakabe, Ken ^a   Otsuki, Yoshinori ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Denaturation; Formamide; Mitosis; Necrosis; Single stranded DNA; TUNEL method

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; FORMAMIDE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; SINGLE STRANDED DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CLEAVAGE; DNA DENATURATION; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APOPTOSIS; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; FORMAMIDES; HISTONES; HUMANS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; JURKAT CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MITOSIS; NECROSIS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 33646688704     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.5A6799.2006     Document Type: Article

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