Investigation of nanoscale structural alterations of cell nucleus as an early sign of cancer

BMC Biophysics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yang ^a,c   Uttam, Shikhar ^a   Alexandrov, Sergey ^b   Bista, Rajan K ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 84907278445     PISSN: 20461682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-1682-7-1     Document Type: Article

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