Chromatin remodeling: The interface between extrinsic cues and the genetic code?

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Ezzat, Shereen ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; IKAROS TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PROLACTIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL EXPANSION; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CODE; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETING CELL; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CLONING, ORGANISM; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENETIC CODE; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 52949148961     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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