Spontaneous reactivation of the inactive X chromosome in mouse embryonal carcinoma cells

Cytogenetic and Genome Research

Volumn 99, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 44-51

  Yoshida, I ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CYTOLOGY; EMBRYONAL CARCINOMA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SELECTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC CELL; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

AMINOPTERIN; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CULTURE MEDIA; DOSAGE COMPENSATION, GENETIC; DRUG RESISTANCE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, NEOPLASTIC; HETEROCHROMATIN; HYPOXANTHINE; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; THYMIDINE; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR STEM CELLS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0344530949     PISSN: 14248581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071573     Document Type: Review

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