Secretion of slime, the extracellular matrix of the plasmodium, as visualized with a fluorescent probe and its correlation with locomotion on the substratum

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 279-289

  Sesaki, Hiromi ^a,b   Ogihara, Satoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell locomotion; Exocytosis; Extracellular matrix; Physarum; Pseudopod formation; Slime

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; RHODAMINE;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CELL ORGANELLE; EXOCYTOSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; LOCOMOTION; MYXOMYCOTA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM;

MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSARUM; PSEUDOPODA;

EID: 0030805010     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.22.279     Document Type: Article

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