TABLE 4.
Measurement by Flow-FISH of telomere length in splenocytes and BM cells obtained from SCID and wild-type mice
| Mouse | Telomere lengtha for:
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Splenocytes | BM cells | |
| Scid 1 | 5.805 | 5.79 |
| Scid 2 | 5.625 | 5.58 |
| Scid 3 | 5.025 | 3.195 |
| Scid 4 | 4.65 | 4.02 |
| Scid 5 | 4.8 | 5.835 |
| Wt 1 | 2.82 | 3.285 |
| Wt 2 | 2.895 | 4.02 |
| Wt 3 | 3.285 | 3.39 |
| Wt 4 | 3.54 | 2.265 |
| Wt 5 | 3.135 | 3.72 |
a
Telomere length is expressed in arbitrary fluorescence units which have been normalized against a calibration curve on R and S cells (see Materials and Methods).