Differential apoptotic staining of mammalian blastocysts based on double immunofluorescent CDX2 and active caspase-3 staining

Analytical Biochemistry

Volumn 416, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 228-230

  Wydooghe, Eline ^a   Vandaele, Leen ^a   Beek, Josine ^a   Favoreel, Herman ^a   Heindryckx, Björn ^b   De Sutter, Petra ^b   Van Soom, Ann ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Differential staining; Immunofluorescence; Preimplantation embryo

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; TRANSCRIPTION;

ACTIVE CASPASE-3; APOPTOTIC CELLS; APOPTOTIC PATHWAYS; DIFFERENTIAL STAINING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INNER CELL MASS; PRE-IMPLANTATION EMBRYOS; ROBUST METHODS;

MAMMALS;

CASPASE 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CDX2; ANTIBODY; CDX2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; FLUORESCENT DYE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL CELL CULTURE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CELLS; COW; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INNER CELL MASS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TROPHECTODERM CELL; ANIMAL; BLASTOCYST; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; STAINING;

BOVINAE; MAMMALIA; MURINAE; SUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; APOPTOSIS; BLASTOCYST; CASPASE 3; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLS, CULTURED; FLUORESCENT DYES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; STAINING AND LABELING; SWINE;

EID: 80155192632     PISSN: 00032697     EISSN: 10960309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.05.033     Document Type: Article

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