A modified fluorescence in situ hybridization protocol for Plasmodium falciparum greatly improves nuclear architecture conservation

Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology

Volumn 173, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-52

  Contreras Dominguez, Monica ^a   Moraes, Carolina Borsoi ^a,d   Dorval, Thierry ^b,c   Genovesio, Auguste ^c   Dossin, Fernando de Macedo ^a   Freitas Junior, Lucio H ^a  

^a Institute Pasteur Korea   (South Korea)

^b Cellular Differentiation Team   (South Korea)

^c Image Mining Group   (South Korea)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Automated image analysis; Fluorescence in situ hybridization; Nuclear organization; Plasmodium falciparum

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL POPULATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TELOMERE;

CELL NUCLEUS STRUCTURES; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; TELOMERE; TISSUE FIXATION;

PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM;

EID: 77953811507     PISSN: 01666851     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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