Soma-to-germline transmission of RNA in mice xenografted with human tumour cells: Possible transport by exosomes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Cossetti, Cristina ^a   Lugini, Luana ^a   Astrologo, Letizia ^b   Saggio, Isabella ^b   Fais, Stefano ^a   Spadafora, Corrado ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MICRORNA; RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; EPIDIDYMIS; EPIGENETICS; EXOSOME; GAMETE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GERMLINE STEM CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INHERITANCE; INTRON; MELANOMA CELL LINE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOMATIC CELL; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MATURATION; TUMOR CELL; ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ANIMAL; CANCER TRANSPLANTATION; EXPERIMENTAL NEOPLASM; MALE; METABOLISM; NUDE MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; XENOGRAFT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; EXOSOMES; HETEROGRAFTS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, NUDE; NEOPLASM TRANSPLANTATION; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RNA, NEOPLASM; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84903751435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101629     Document Type: Article

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