Recent advancements in cloning by somatic cell nuclear transfer

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1609, 2013, Pages

  Ogura, Atsuo ^a,b   Inoue, Kimiko ^a,b   Wakayama, Teruhiko ^c,d  

^a RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Genomic reprogramming; Histone acetylation; Mouse; Nuclear transfer; X chromosome inactivation

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; CHROMOSOME; CLONAL GROWTH; CYTOLOGY; DNA; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GENOME; GENOMICS; GERM CELL; MEDICINE; PROTEIN; RODENT; SHEEP; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84869416779     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0329     Document Type: Review

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