Detection of single fluorescent microtubules and methods for determining their dynamics in living cells

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 10, Issue 1-2, 1988, Pages 237-245

  Sammak, P J ^a   Borisy, G G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING; CELL CULTURE; CELL DYNAMICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGING; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MICROTUBULE; NEWBORN; NORMAL HUMAN; TELEVISION MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

EID: 0023782317     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.970100128     Document Type: Article

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