09883 IUPAC Gold Book - Tunel test 10.1351/goldbook.09883 09883 current initialism: TUNEL 1 Method for the determination of strand breaks and DNA fragmentation in cells based on labelling and quantification of free 3′-OH ends of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). The abbreviation is for terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labelling (TUNEL). DNA fragmentation https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09696 strand breaks https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/09729 PAC, 2018, 90, 1121. 'Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018)' on page 1186 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2016-1120) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09883/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09883/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/09883/plain Citation: 'Tunel test' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.09883 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-04-18T03:54:22+00:00