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- noun cytology A loosening of the texture of
chromatin
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Examples
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Movies are flagged if mitosis is not natural, and the researchers even group the films by similar mishaps including cell death, nuclei location, and decondensation failures, among others.
News from The Scientist Lauren Urban 2010
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One such test is the sperm DNA decondensation test.
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Alexandrow MG, Hamlin JL (2005) Chromatin decondensation in S-phase involves recruitment of Cdk2 by Cdc45 and histone H1 phosphorylation.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Piyali Mukherjee et al. 2009
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Consistent with this hypothesis, Bayes found that Odysseus proteins localize to heterochromatic DNA found next to centromeres and on gene-poor chromosomes, which leads to their decondensation.
unknown title 2009
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A) Putative decondensation of centromeric chromatin resulting from the loss of condensin and CENPA.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alexander Samoshkin et al. 2009
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