Apoptotic nuclear morphological change without DNA fragmentation

Current Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 543-546

  Sakahira, Hideki ^a,b   Enari, Masato ^a,c   Ohsawa, Yoshiyuki ^d   Uchiyama, Yasuo ^d   Nagata, Shigekazu ^a,b  

^a Department of Genetics ^*  (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 0033587066     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(99)80240-1     Document Type: Article

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