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Nuclear Matrix
Definition 1
A fibrogranular network of residual structural elements within which are immersed both chromatin and ribonucleoproteins. It appears to extend throughout the nuclear interior from the nucleolus to the nuclear pore complexes along the nuclear periphery. (NCI Thesaurus)
Definition 2
network of proteinaceous structural elements in the nucleus, comparable to the cytoskeleton of the cytoplasm, responsible for large- scale translocations such as chromosome movement, spliceosome and mRNA transport, etc. (NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
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