The intranuclear environment

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 463, Issue , 2008, Pages 3-19

  Schnell, Santiago ^a   Hancock, Ronald ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell nucleus; Diffusion; Entropic forces; Ionic environment; Macromolecular crowding; Phase separation; Reaction kinetics; Stochastic nature of reactions

Indexed keywords

COLLOID; ION; MAGNESIUM; POLYMER;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL NUCLEUS; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; DIFFUSION; DOSE RESPONSE; HUMAN; KINETICS; MARKOV CHAIN; METABOLISM; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; COLLOIDS; DIFFUSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; HUMANS; IONS; KINETICS; MAGNESIUM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYMERS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 62549088679     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-406-3_1     Document Type: Article

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