Nanostructure of specific chromatin regions and nuclear complexes

Histochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 75-82

  Mathee H ^a   Baddeley, D ^a   Wotzlaw, C ^b   Fandrey, J ^b   Cremer, C ^a,c   Birk, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin compaction; Gene activation; Nanosizing; SMI microscopy; Transcription factories

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE;

ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 7Q; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE ACTIVATION; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ILLUMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; CRYOPRESERVATION; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 30044449419     PISSN: 09486143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00418-005-0096-7     Document Type: Article

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