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  • Research Article   
  • J Clinic Experiment Pathol 2012, Vol 2(2): 108
  • DOI: 10.4172/2161-0681.1000108

Quantification of TUNEL Assay in Hippocampus of Diabetic Rats by MAT LAB: Comparison with Stereological Method

Shahriar Ahmadpour1* and Mohamad Amin Younessi Heravi2
1Assistant Professor of Anatomical Sciences, Department of Anatomical Sciences & Pathobiology, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences (NKUMS), Bojnourd, Iran
2Department of Bimolecular Sciences, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University of Medical Sciences (NKUMS), Bojnurd, Iran
*Corresponding Author : Shahriar Ahmadpour, Assistant Professor of Anatomical Sciences, Department of Anatomical Sciences & Pathobiology, School of Medicine, North Khorasan University Of Medical Sciences (NKUMS), Bojnourd, Iran, Tel: +98 584 2247282, Email: shahahmadpour@gmail.com

Received Date: Dec 06, 2011 / Accepted Date: Mar 19, 2012 / Published Date: Mar 21, 2012

Abstract

Quantification of immunostained sections is needed in order to reliably and accurately assesses the expression of cellular proteins in tissue. Here we describe a novel technique for quantification of TUNEL positive neurons in rat hippocampus. After uniform random sampling the slices were stained by TUNEL and counterstained by toluidine blue. Counting of TUNEL positive neurons performed by stereological method manually. The same sections were processed by MAT Lab software and the results compared together. The result showed there is no significant level of differences between the two methods (P<0.05). We believe merging image processing methods like MAT LAB and uniform random sampling facilitate the interpretation of study results.

Keywords: TUNEL; Stereology; MAT LAB; Hippocampus

Citation: Ahmadpour S,Younessi Heravi MA (2012) Quantification of TUNEL Assay in Hippocampus of Diabetic Rats by MAT LAB: Comparison with Stereological Method. J Clinic Experiment Pathol 2:108. Doi: 10.4172/2161-0681.1000108

Copyright: © 2012 Ahmadpour S, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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