FREE NEJM E-TOC    HOME   |   SUBSCRIBE   |   CURRENT ISSUE   |   PAST ISSUES   |   COLLECTIONS   |   Search Term  Advanced Search

Sign in | Get NEJM's E-Mail Table of Contents — Free | Subscribe

Previous Volume 340:62-64 January 7, 1999 Number 1 Next

	Since this article has no abstract, we have provided an extract of the first 100 words of the full text and any section headings.

	Full Text Purchase this article Add to Personal Archive Add to Citation Manager Notify a Friend E-mail When Cited Related Article Related Article by Jones, D.

To the Editor: Jones et al. (Aug. 13 issue)¹ are not the first scientists and most likely will not be the last to mistake nuclear pores for viral particles. Probably every beginner in transmission electron microscopy believes that he or she has found a virus on first encountering an en face view of a nuclear pore.

Nuclear pores measure approximately 55 to 70 nm in diameter, have an annulus of 100 to 120 nm, and can have a small, central, electron-dense structure. Thus, the nuclear pore is in the size range and location of and vaguely resembles the herpesvirus nucleoid. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

References

Related Letters:

Propagation of a Human Herpesvirus from AIDS-Associated Kaposi's Sarcoma
Blauvelt A., Herndier B. G., Orenstein J. M., Friborg J., Nabel G. J., Nickoloff B. J.
Extract | Full Text  
N Engl J Med 1997; 336:1837-1839, Jun 19, 1997. Correspondence

HOME  |  SUBSCRIBE  |  SEARCH  |  CURRENT ISSUE  |  PAST ISSUES  |  COLLECTIONS  |  PRIVACY  |  TERMS OF USE  |  HELP  |  beta.nejm.org Comments and questions? Please contact us. The New England Journal of Medicine is owned, published, and copyrighted © 2009 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved.