DNA loss and related alterations in long-term cultures of diploid, tetraploid and octaploid Meth-A cells

Cytologia

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-344

  Fujikawa Yamamoto, Kohzaburo ^a   Miyagoshi, Minoru ^a   Yamagishi, Hiroko ^a  

^a KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA loss; Flow cytometry; Octaploid Meth A cells; Ploidy degradation; Tetraploid Meth A cells

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244478929     PISSN: 00114545     EISSN: 00114545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1508/cytologia.70.337     Document Type: Article

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