The role of actin polymerization in cell motility

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 1991, Pages 585-605

  Cooper, John A ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin binding proteins; Assembly; Cytoskeleton

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; FIBROBLAST; NERVE CELL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ANIMAL; CELL MOVEMENT; HUMAN; POLYMERS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0025982039     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ph.53.030191.003101     Document Type: Article

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