Identification of novel graded polarity actin filament bundles in locomoting heart fibroblasts: Implications for the generation of motile force

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1287-1305

  Cramer, Louise P ^a   Siebert, Margaret ^b   Mitchison, Timothy J ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STRUCTURE; FIBROBLAST; LAMELLIPODIUM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHOTOACTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CHICK EMBRYO; FIBROBLASTS; KIDNEY; MACROPODIDAE; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0030864069     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.136.6.1287     Document Type: Article

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