Liver sections from CTRL and IUGR males at birth and 6-month-old rats were stained with 53BP-1 (1/100, Abcam, Cambridge, UK) overnight at 4 °C. Sections were then washed with PBS and incubated for two hours with Alexa Fluor-647-conjugated goat anti-rabbit IgG (1/200, Abcam). Sections were then rinsed with PBS and mounted using Fluoromount g mounting medium with DAPI. A negative control was established through incubating only with secondary antibody. Slides were observed blindly using a fluorescence microscope (Nikon, Eclipse Ti2 Series) by the same experimenter (C.Y.) [30 (link)]. Fluorescence was evaluated with ImageJ software, and liver autofluorescence was subtracted
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