Nanosecond electric pulses penetrate the nucleus and enhance speckle formation

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 364, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-225

  Chen, Nianyong ^a,b   Garner, Allen L ^a,c   Chen, George ^d   Jing, Yu ^e   Deng, Yuping ^e   Swanson, R James ^a   Kolb, Juergen F ^a,f   Beebe, Stephen J ^a   Joshi, Ravindra P ^a,f   Schoenbach, Karl H ^a,f  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracellular electromanipulation; Nanosecond electric pulses; Nuclear speckles; Nucleus; Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles intrachromatin granule clusters

Indexed keywords

PROPIDIUM IODIDE; SM ANTIBODY; SMALL NUCLEAR RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKEMIA CELL LINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING;

ANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; CELL CYCLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; JURKAT CELLS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NUCLEAR MATRIX; PROTEIN BINDING; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RNA SPLICING;

EID: 35448971440     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.09.125     Document Type: Article

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