Ultrastructural morphometrical and immunocytochemical analyses of hepatocyte nuclei from mice fed on genetically modified soybean

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 173-180

  Malatesta, Manuela ^a   Caporaloni, Chiara ^a,b   Gavaudan, Stefano ^b   Rocchi, Marco B L ^a   Serafini, Sonja ^a   Tiberi, Cinzia ^a   Gazzanelli, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^b Ist Zooprofilattico Sperim dell'U   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cell nucleus; Genetically modified soybean; Liver

Indexed keywords

FIBRILLARIN; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PROCESSING; GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD; HEALTH HAZARD; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; ION TRANSPORT; LIVER CELL; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLISM; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEOLUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOYBEAN; AGING; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEUS MEMBRANE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENZYMOLOGY; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ROUGH ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; SECRETORY VESICLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ANIMALS; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; BODY WEIGHT; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM, ROUGH; FEMALE; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GOLGI APPARATUS; HEPATOCYTES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; NUCLEAR ENVELOPE; NUCLEAR PORE; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; SECRETORY VESICLES; SOYBEANS;

EID: 0036704287     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.27.173     Document Type: Article

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