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Intranuclear sphingomyelin is associated with transcriptionally active chromatin and plays a role in nuclear

Catia Scassellati1, Elisabetta Albi, Dusan Cmarko

  • 1Centre of Electron Microscopy, University of Lausanne, Bugnon 27, CH-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland.

Biology of the Cell
|January 26, 2010
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