Quantifying apoptosis in banked human brains using flow cytometry.

Abstract:

:Fragmentation of genomic DNA, a major biochemical feature of programmed cell death (apoptosis), is easily detected when apoptosis is prevalent. In brain tissue apoptotic cells are usually scarce and detection requires more sensitive techniques. We describe a highly sensitive method to quantify apoptosis in frozen human brain tissue using flow cytometry. Nuclei from homogenized brain specimens were isolated to purity using discontinuous isopyknic centrifugation through 2.2 M sucrose. DNA strand breaks in apoptotic nuclei were conjugated with biotinylated-dUTP using terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) and tagged with streptavidin-conjugated FITC (TUNEL). Negative controls excluding the TdT step, and positive controls using DNAase pretreatment to create 3'-OH strand breaks were run in parallel. The proportion of nuclei with TdT-dependent labeling in adult brain specimens was < 0.01% in 6 out of 7 specimens. In 3 fetal brains it averaged 0.86 +/- 0.11%. Apoptotic cells were readily detected in 2 malignant glial neoplasms and in a patient with HIV encephalitis. Comparable frequencies of stained nuclei were present in adjacent specimens embedded in paraffin and labeled in situ. By screening millions of nuclei cytometry detected very rare apoptotic events, producing quantitative results using banked frozen brains. The method has potential applications to studies of human brain development, neurodegenerative diseases, and brain tumors.

authors

Olano JP,Wolf D,Keherly M,Gelman BB

doi

10.1097/00005072-199611000-00008

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-11-01 00:00:00

pages

1164-72

issue

11

eissn

0022-3069

issn

1554-6578

journal_volume

55

pub_type

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