Detection of apoptosis by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick-end labeling and acridine orange in Drosophila embryos and adult male gonads

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1725-1731

  Arama, Eli ^a,b   Steller, Hermann ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIDINE ORANGE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOGONIUM; TESTIS; TISSUE FIXATION;

ACRIDINE ORANGE; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; DROSOPHILA; GONADS; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE;

EID: 34248667583     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.235     Document Type: Article

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