The importance of cytoskeleton proteins in megakaryocyte spreading and platelet formation

Blood Reviews

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 17-19

  Baatout, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FILAMIN; MYOSIN;

CELL SPREADING; CELL STRUCTURE; HUMAN; MEGAKARYOCYTE; MICROTUBULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTOPOIESIS; VEIN; VENOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0029964182     PISSN: 0268960X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0268-960X(96)90016-8     Document Type: Article

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