nucleolar organizer


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Synonyms for nucleolar organizer

the particular part of a chromosome that is associated with a nucleolus after nuclear division

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It might be that the size was definitely increased or it was due to groups of nucleolar organizer regions which could not be visualised separately at provided optical level.
Key words: Argyrophilic Nucleolar Organizer Regions, Breast carcinoma, Bloom and Richardson Grade, Estrogen receptor.
It was applied the conventional 2% Giemsa staining for 5 minutes to obtain chromosome measures and Ag-NOR banding according to Howell and Black (1980) for nucleolar organizer regions (NOR) localization and also for counting the nucleolus number in interphase cells.
C-banding (in a total of 10 cells) and silver staining of the nucleolar organizer regions (Ag-NORs--in 20 cells) were performed following protocols described by Sumner (1972) and Howell and Black (1980), respectively.
(23) However, Carrillo et al found no correlation between nucleolar organizer regions and clinical outcomes in a series of benign and malignant myoepithelial tumors.
The number of nucleolar organizer regions (NOR) of neoplastic cells did not differ among groups.
Their topics include the evolutionary role of hybridization and polyploidy in an Iberian cyprinid fish, chromosomal analysis in population structuring and stock identification, nucleolar organizer region markers in identifying and managing rainbow trout stocks reared in Brazil, and applying fluorescence in situ hybridization to genome mapping in fish.
The use of the silver staining technique to reveal the nucleolar organizer region (NOR) showed that chromosome pairs 4 and 6 and the X chromosome in C.
(15) Experimental techniques that have been used to differentiate between HAB and RCC include in situ hybridization measuring the expression of telomerase RNA, nucleolar organizer region counts (AgNOR method), and the use of newly described antibodies such as aquaporin 1.