Fixation temperature affects DNA integrity in the testis as measured by the TUNEL assay

Toxicologic Pathology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 667-674

  Dutta, Dibyendu ^a   Park, In ^a   Mills, Nathaniel C ^a  

^a TEXAS WOMAN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bouin's fluid; fixative; liver; modified Davidson's fixative; testes; TUNEL assay

Indexed keywords

FIXATIVE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA STRAND; LIVER; MALE; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STAINING; TESTIS; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION; TISSUE FIXATION;

ACETIC ACID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DNA; ENDOPEPTIDASE K; FIXATIVES; FORMALDEHYDE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; LIVER; MALE; PICRATES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TEMPERATURE; TESTIS; TISSUE FIXATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84861796841     PISSN: 01926233     EISSN: 15331601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0192623311436182     Document Type: Article

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