Preservation of large-scale chromatin structure in FISH experiments

Chromosoma

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 117-133

  Hepperger, Claudia ^a   Otten, Simone ^a   von Hase, Johann ^b   Dietzel, Steffen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BUFFER; FORMALDEHYDE; HYPOTONIC SOLUTION; METHANOL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; ERYTHROLEUKEMIA CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; HETEROCHROMATIN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MORPHOLOGY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRESERVATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FORMALDEHYDE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; TISSUE FIXATION;

EID: 33947138649     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00412-006-0084-2     Document Type: Article

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