TUNEL

From: DARZYNKIEWICZ ZBIGNIEW (DARZYNK@NYMC.EDU)
Date: Sat Dec 13 1997 - 09:31:05 EST 

The acronym TUNEL stays for "TdT-mediated dUTP-biotin nick end labeling"
(Gavrieli et al., J. Cell Biol., 119: 493, 1992). Actually, it is a
misnomer, because DNA breaks in apoptotic cells (which "TUNEL" is
labeling) are double strand breaks and not nicks. Nicks are single
strand DNA breaks.
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz

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