title: The nucleus introduced.
abstract: Now is an opportune moment to address the confluence of cell biological form and function that is the nucleus. Its arrival is especially timely because the recognition that the nucleus is extremely dynamic has now been solidly established as a paradigm shift over the past two decades, and also because we now see on the horizon numerous ways in which organization itself, including gene location and possibly self-organizing bodies, underlies nuclear functions.
authors.affiliation: Program in Cell and Developmental Dynamics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. thoru.pederson@umassmed.edu
authors.forename: Thoru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Pederson
mesh_terms: D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D048750:Cell Nucleus Division; D042581:Intranuclear Space / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009685:Nuclear Envelope / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure