Revealing the high-resolution three-dimensional network of chromatin and interchromatin space: A novel electron-microscopic approach to reconstructing nuclear architecture

Chromosome Research

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 801-810

  Rouquette, Jacques ^a   Genoud, Christel ^b,d   Vazquez Nin, Gerardo H ^c   Kraus, Bernd ^b   Cremer, Thomas ^a   Fakan, Stanislav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b GATAN INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; 3View; Chromatin; Electron microscopy; Interchromatin space; SBFSEM

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRAMICROTOMY;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HEPATOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS;

RATTUS;

EID: 70349847560     PISSN: 09673849     EISSN: 15736849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10577-009-9070-x     Document Type: Article

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