Prague Med. Rep. 2016, 117, 42-53

https://doi.org/10.14712/23362936.2016.4

L1 Retrotransposons Are Transcriptionally Active in Hippocampus of Rat Brain

Somnath Mukherjee1, Deepak Sharma1, Kailash C. Upadhyaya1,2

1School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
2Amity Institute of Molecular Biology and Genomics, Amity University, Noida, India

Received August 2, 2015
Accepted February 24, 2016

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