Traction fibre: Toward a 'tensegral' model of the spindle

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-6

  Pickett Heaps, Jeremy D ^a   Forer, Arthur ^b   Spurck, Tim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

kinetochore; microtubule; mitosis; PAC MAN; tensegrity

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ANIMAL CELL; CENTROMERE; CYTOKINESIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; METAPHASE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEWT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; KINETOCHORES; MECHANORECEPTORS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA; SALAMANDRIDAE;

EID: 0030916317     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)37:1<1::AID-CM1>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Review

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