Selective cleaning of the cell debris in human chromosome preparations studied by scanning force microscopy

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 200-210

  Tamayo, Javier ^a   Miles, Mervyn ^a   Thein, Angela ^a   Soothill, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Chromosome structure; Metaphase chromosomes; Scanning force microscopy

Indexed keywords

RNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CONFORMATION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DENATURATION; SCANNING FORCE MICROSCOPY; TELOMERE;

EID: 0033572257     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.1999.4191     Document Type: Article

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