Single nuclear pores visualized by confocal microscopy and image processing

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2067-2077

  Kubitscheck, Ulrich ^a   Wedekind, Peter ^a   Zeidler, Oliver ^a   Grote, Monika ^a   Peters, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; CHROMATIN CONDENSATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE PROCESSING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029930929     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79811-9     Document Type: Article

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