A synergy of technologies: Combining laser microsurgery with green fluorescent protein tagging

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 311-317

  Khodjakov, Alexey ^a   Cole, Richard W ^a   Rieder, Conly L ^a,b  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

tubulin; Centrosomes; GFP; Laser microsurgery; Mitosis

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; TUBULIN;

CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL LABELING; CENTRIOLE; CENTROSOME; DISSECTION; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

CENTROSOME; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LASER SURGERY; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TUBULIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030829648     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)38:4<311::AID-CM1>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Review

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