Rise, fall and resurrection of chromosome territories: A historical perspective Part II. Fall and resurrection of chromosome territories during the 1950s to 1980s. Part III. Chromosome territories and the functional nuclear architecture: experiments and models from the 1990s to the present

European Journal of Histochemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 223-272

  Cremer, Thomas ^a   Cremer, Christoph ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c JACKSON LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome territories; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; High resolution laser fluorescence microscopy; Nuclear architecture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY LABELING; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME DAMAGE; CHROMOSOME PAINTING; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENE CONTROL; HUMAN; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPHASE; LASER MICROBEAM MICRODISSECTION; REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHO CELL; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CRICETULUS; HAMSTER; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHO CELLS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURES; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; CYTOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC;

EID: 33847775659     PISSN: 1121760X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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