Statistical analysis of the three-dimensional structure of centromeric heterochromatin in interphase nuclei

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 217, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-68

  Beil, Michael ^a   Fleischer, F ^b   Paschke, S ^a   Schmidt, V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Centromeres; Confocal microscopy; Heterochromatin; Point field characteristics; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GENES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TOPOLOGY;

CENTROMERE; CLUSTERINGS; DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; HETEROCHROMATIN; L-FUNCTIONS; NB4 CELLS; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR DISTRIBUTION; PAIR CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; POINT FIELD CHARACTERISTIC; SPATIAL STATISTICS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROMERE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; GENE SILENCING; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERPHASE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMYELOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 13244287796     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-2720.2005.01439.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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