Analysis of Xenopus melanotrope cell size and POMC-Gene expression

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1040, Issue , 2005, Pages 269-272

  Corstens, G J H ^a   Roubos, E W ^a   Jenks, Bruce G ^a   Van Erp, P E J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Flow cytometry; Hyperplasia; MSH; PCR; POMC

Indexed keywords

PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 22144446753     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1327.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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