Hibernation as a far-reaching program for the modulation of RNA transcription

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 71, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 564-572

  Malatesta, Manuela ^a   Biggiogera, Marco ^b   Baldelli, Beatrice ^c   Barabino, Silvia M L ^d   Martin, Terence E ^e   Zancanaro, Carlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF URBINO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell nucleus; Hypometabolism; Immunocytochemistry; Ribonucleoproteins; Splicing

Indexed keywords

CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; PHYSIOLOGY; RNA;

CELL NUCLEUS; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; FUNCTIONAL MODIFICATION; HYPOMETABOLISM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLIC DEMANDS; PRE-MRNA; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SPLICING;

TRANSCRIPTION;

MESSENGER RNA; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BROWN ADIPOSE TISSUE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORMOUSE; HIBERNATION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTRANUCLEAR SPACE; LIVER CELL; LIVER FUNCTION; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; NONSHIVERING THERMOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RNA CLEAVAGE; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION;

EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; MUSCARDINUS AVELLANARIUS;

EID: 49749096459     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: 10970029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jemt.20587     Document Type: Article

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