Tau is enriched on dynamic microtubules in the distal region of growing axons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 3601-3619

  Black, Mark M ^a   Slaughter, Theresa ^a   Moshiach, Simon ^a   Obrocka, Maria ^b   Fischer, Itzhak ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

axon growth; cultured sympathetic neurons; cytoskeleton; microtubule associated proteins; quantitative digital image analysis

Indexed keywords

MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROTUBULE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

EID: 0029922250     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.16-11-03601.1996     Document Type: Article

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