Highly sensitive automated method for DNA damage assessment: Gamma-H2AX foci counting and cell cycle sorting

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 15810-15826

  Hernández, Laia ^a   Terradas, Mariona ^a   Martín, Marta ^a   Tusell, Laura ^a   Genescà, Anna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automated screening method; Cell cycle; DNA damage; Dosimetry; Gamma H2AX; Mammography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CENTROMERE PROTEIN F; GAMMA HISTONE H2AX; HISTONE H2AX; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PERICENTRIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL ASSAY; CELL CYCLE G2 PHASE; CELL CYCLE M PHASE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CELL CYCLE SORTING; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMA HISTONE H2AX FOCI COUNTING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING SOFTWARE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTOMATION; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FEMALE; GAMMA RAYS; HISTONES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; M PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS; MAMMARY GLANDS, HUMAN; PHOSPHORYLATION; S PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINTS;

EID: 84881139971     PISSN: 16616596     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms140815810     Document Type: Article

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