DNA Damage Detection In Situ, Ex Vivo and In Vivo: Methods and Protocols Vladimir V. Didenko, Editor Table of Contents ________________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Preface Contributors Part 1. DETECTION IN TISSUE SECTIONS 1 In Situ Detection of Apoptosis by the TUNEL Assay: An Overview of Techniques. Deryk T. Loo 2 Combination of TUNEL Assay with Immunohistochemistry for Simultaneous Detection of DNA Fragmentation and Oxidative Cell Damage. Alexander E. Kalyuzhny 3 EM-ISEL: A Useful Tool to Visualize DNA Damage at the Ultrastructural Level. Antonio Migheli 4 In Situ Labeling of DNA Breaks and Apoptosis by T7 DNA Polymerase. Vladimir V. Didenko 5 In Situ Ligation: a Decade and a Half of Experience. Peter J. Hornsby and Vladimir V. Didenko 6 In Situ Ligation Simplified: Using PCR Fragments for Detection of Double-Strand DNA Breaks in Tissue Sections. Vladimir V. Didenko 7 5'OH DNA Breaks in Apoptosis and their Labeling by Topoisomerase-Based Approach. Vladimir V. Didenko Part 2. DETECTION IN CELL CULTURES 8 Detection of DNA Strand Breaks in Apoptotic Cells by Flow- and Image-Cytometry. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz and Hong Zhao 9 Fluorochrome-Labeled Inhibitors of Caspases (FLICA): Convenient In Vitro and In Vivo Markers of Apoptotic Cells for Cytometric Analysis. Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, Piotr Pozarowski, Brian W. Lee and Gary L. Johnson 10 Combining Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization with the Comet Assay for Targeted Examination of DNA Damage and Repair. Sergey Shaposhnikov, Preben D. Thomsen, and Andrew R. Collins 11 Simultaneous Labeling of Single- and Double-Strand DNA Breaks by DNA Breakage Detection-FISH (DBD-FISH). Jose Luis Fernandez, Dioleyda Cajigal, Jaime Gosalvez 12 Co-Localization of DNA Repair Proteins with UV-induced DNA Damage in Locally Irradiated Cells. Jennifer Guerrero-Santoro, Arthur S. Levine, and Vesna Rapic-Otrin Part 3. DETECTION IN LIVE TISSUES, BLOOD, URINE, SPERM 13 Ultrasound Imaging of Apoptosis: Spectroscopic Detection of DNA-Damage Effects at High and Low-Frequencies. Roxana M. Vlad, Michael C. Kolios and Gregory J. Czarnota 14 Quantifying Etheno-DNA Adducts in Human Tissues, White Blood Cells and Urine by Ultrasensitive 32P-postlabeling and Immunohistochemistry. Jagadeesan Nair, Urmila J. Nair, Xin Sun, Ying Wang, Khelifa Arab, and Helmut Bartsch 15 ELISpot Assay as a Tool to Study Oxidative Stress in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells. Jodi Hagen, J.P. Houchins and Alexander E. Kalyuzhny 16 Cytokinesis-Block Micronucleus Cytome assay in Lymphocytes. Philip Thomas and Michael Fenech 17 Buccal Micronucleus Cytome Assay. Philip Thomas and Michael Fenech 18 -H2AX Detection in Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes, Splenocytes, Bone Marrow, Xenografts and Skin. Christophe E. Redon, Asako Nakamura, Olivier Sordet, Jennifer S. Dickey, Ksenia Gouliaeva, Brian Tabb, Scott Lawrence, Robert J. Kinders, William M. Bonner, Olga A. Sedelnikova 19 Immunologic Detection of Benzo(a)pyrene-DNA Adducts. Regina M. Santella and Yu-Jing Zhang 20 Non-Invasive Assessment of Oxidatively Damaged DNA: Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Urinary 8-Oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine.Vilas Mistry, Friederike Teichert, Jatinderpal.K.Sandhu, Rajinder Singh, Mark D. Evans, , Peter B. Farmer, and Marcus S. Cooke 21 Assessing sperm DNA fragmentation with the Sperm Chromatin Dispersion (SCD) test. Jose Luis Fernandez, Dioleyda Cajigal, Carmen Lopez-Fernandez, Jaime Gosalvez