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Mammalian nuclear transplantation to Germinal Vesicle stage Xenopus oocytes – A method for quantitative transcriptional reprogramming
2 Feb 2010
Abstract excerpt
Full-grown Xenopus oocytes in first meiotic prophase contain an immensely enlarged nucleus, the Germinal Vesicle (GV), that can be injected with several hundred somatic cell nuclei. When the nuclei of mammalian somatic cells or cultured cell lines are injected into a GV, a wide range of genes that are not transcribed in the donor cells, including pluripotency genes, start to be transcriptionally activated, and...
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