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1 Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: pdaghe2{at}iupui.edu.
Apoptosis is an important mode of cell death under both physiological and pathophysiological conditions. Numerous techniques are available for the study and quantitation of apoptosis in cell culture but only few are useful when applied to complex tissues. Among these, the TUNEL assay remains the most widely used technique. However, its specificity and sensitivity for the detection of apoptosis remain controversial. We developed a technique consisting of staining live cells and tissues with Hoechst 33342 and the vital dye propidium iodide (PI) followed by fixation and the TUNEL reaction. We demonstrate excellent retention of PI in necrotic cells after fixation. We also examined the distribution of TUNEL staining among necrotic and apoptotic cells in various models of cell injury in vitro and in vivo. We show that the sensitivity of the TUNEL varied between 61% and 90% in the models examined. The specificity exceeded 87% in all models but fell to 70% when a predominantly necrotic injury was induced. This novel and simple method will permit the determination of indices of sensitivity and specificity for the TUNEL assay in other tissues and experimental conditions.
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