Publication
Title
Determination of apoptotic and necrotic cell death in vitro and in vivo
Author
Abstract
Cell death research during the last decades has revealed many molecular signaling cascades, often leading to distinct cell death modalities followed by immune responses. For historical reasons, the prototypic and best characterized cell death modes are apoptosis and necrosis (dubbed necroptosis, to indicate that it is regulated). There is mounting evidence for the interplay between cell death modalities and their redundant action when one of them is interfered with. This increase in cell death research points to the need for characterizing cell death pathways by different approaches at the biochemical, cellular and if possible, physiological level. In this review we present a selection of techniques to detect cell death and to distinguish necrosis from apoptosis. The distinction should be based on pharmacologic and transgenic approaches in combination with several biochemical and morphological criteria. A particular problem in defining necrosis is that in the absence of phagocytosis, apoptotic cells become secondary necrotic and develop morphologic and biochemical features of primary necrosis. (C) 2013 Published by Elsevier Inc.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Methods: a companion to methods in enzymology. - San Diego, Calif.
Publication
San Diego, Calif. : 2013
ISSN
1046-2023
DOI
10.1016/J.YMETH.2013.02.011
Volume/pages
61 :2 (2013) , p. 117-129
ISI
000321234700006
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
Publication type
Subject
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 18.02.2023
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