Nanoscale changes in chromatin organization represent the initial steps of tumorigenesis: A transmission electron microscopy study

BMC Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Cherkezyan, Lusik ^a   Stypula Cyrus, Yolanda ^a   Subramanian, Hariharan ^a   White, Craig ^a   Dela Cruz, Mart ^b   Wali, Ramesh K ^b   Goldberg, Michael J ^c   Bianchi, Laura K ^c   Roy, Hemant K ^b   Backman, Vadim ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHSHORE UNIVERSITY HEALTHSYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromatin; Colon cancer; Field cancerization; Field effect; Transmission electron microcopy

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; OSMIUM TETRAOXIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUCHROMATIN; GENE FUNCTION; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NANOANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RECTUM MUCOSA; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; CELL DENSITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONFORMATION; CYTOLOGY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ACQUISITION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADENOMA; ANIMALS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; CHROMATIN; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; RATS;

EID: 84899146875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-189     Document Type: Article

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