Cytoplasmic assembly of microtubules in cultured cells

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 110, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2635-2645

  Vorobjev, Ivan A ^a   Svitkina, Tatyana M ^b   Borisy, Gary G ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrosome; Cultured cell; Dynamic; Fluorescence microscopy; Microtubule

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CENTROSOME; CYTOPLASM; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030665266     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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