Ultraviolet microbeam irradiations of epithelial and spermatocyte spindles suggest that forces act on the kinetochore fibre and are not generated by its disassembly

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 136-148

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

chromosome movement; microtubules; mitosis; PacMan; spindle fibres; spindle matrix; ultraviolet microbeam

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM CELL; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMATOCYTE; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ANAPHASE; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; EPITHELIUM; KINETOCHORES; MALE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; SALAMANDRIDAE; SPERMATOCYTES; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

ANIMALIA; SALAMANDRIDAE; TIPULIDAE;

EID: 0031055446     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1997)36:2<136::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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