Seeing is believing: Visualizing transcriptional dynamics in single cells

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 229, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 259-265

  Newhart, Alyshia ^a   Janicki, Susan M ^a  

^a WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL FUNCTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE CONSTRUCT; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REPORTER GENE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRACKING; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; DNA; GENES, REPORTER; HUMANS; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; RNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84888026952     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: 10974652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.24445     Document Type: Article

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