Alterations of DNA methylation patterns in germ cells and Sertoli cells from developing mouse testis

Cytogenetics and Cell Genetics

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 1999, Pages 175-181

  Coffigny, H ^a   Bourgeois, C ^b   Ricoul, M ^a   Bernardino, J ^a   Vilain, A ^b   Niveleau, A ^c   Malfoy, B ^b   Dutrillaux, Bernard ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE RADIOPROTECTION ET DE SÛRETÉ NUCLÉAIRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5 METHYLCYTOSINE; ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE G0 PHASE; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL TYPE; CHROMATID; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMETHYLATION; DNA METHYLATION; DNA REPLICATION; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; GENE FUNCTION; GERM CELL; HETEROCHROMATIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERPHASE; MALE; METAPHASE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0033376795     PISSN: 03010171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000015460     Document Type: Article

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