Cell Component
nuclear bodies
nu·cle·ar bo·dies
Subclass of:
Intranuclear Space
Definitions related to nuclear bodies:
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(nuclear body) Extra-nucleolar nuclear domains usually visualized by confocal microscopy and fluorescent antibodies to specific proteins.Gene Ontology DictionaryGene Ontology Consortium, 2021
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Dynamic intranucleoplasmic membraneless structures which concentrate various nuclear factors. Nuclear bodies exchange components with NUCLEOPLASM and participate in various RNA metabolisms unlike nuclear INCLUSION BODIES which aggregate most often foreign or inactive pathological biomolecules.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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