Tau as a nucleolar protein in human nonneural cells in vitro and in vivo

Chromosoma

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 20-30

  Thurston, Virginia C ^a,c   Zinkowski, Raymond P ^b   Binder, Lester I ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Molecular Geriatrics Corporation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL CYCLE; CELL STIMULATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME NOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOBLOTTING; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOBLAST; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; METAPHASE CHROMOSOME; MICROTUBULE; NUCLEOLUS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RIBOSOME;

EID: 0029993245     PISSN: 00095915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02510035     Document Type: Article

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