Measuring apoptosis at the single cell level

The use of live cell microscopy has made a number of contributions to the study of apoptosis. Many of the tools and techniques are available that allow us to image the key events that occur during cell death including mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization, mitochondrial transmembrane potenti...

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Autores: Bouchier-Hayes, Lisa, Muñoz Pinedo, Cristina, Connell, Samuel, Green, Douglas R.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/126415
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/126415
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Apoptosi
Microscòpia confocal
Apoptosis
Confocal microscopy
Descripción
Sumario:The use of live cell microscopy has made a number of contributions to the study of apoptosis. Many of the tools and techniques are available that allow us to image the key events that occur during cell death including mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization, mitochondrial transmembrane potential changes, translocation of Bcl-2 family members, caspase activation, phosphatidylserine flip and plasma membrane rupture. We discuss these techniques here and highlight the advantages and drawbacks of using such approaches to study apoptosis. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.