Hepatocyte apoptosis

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 481, Issue , 2009, Pages 59-74

  Najimi, Mustapha ^a   Smets, Françoise ^a   Sokal, Etienne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Agarose gel; Apoptosis; Caspase activation; Cell death; Cytology; DNA fragmentation; Electrophoresis; Flow cytometry; Hepatocytes; Histology; Immunoblotting; Immunohistochemistry; Mitochondria; Spectrophotometer; TUNEL

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934437950     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-201-4_6     Document Type: Article

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