The organization and animal-vegetal asymmetry of cytokeratin filaments in stage VI Xenopus oocytes is dependent upon F-actin and microtubules

Developmental Biology

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-114

  Gard, David L ^a   Cha, Byeong Jik ^a   King, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOKERATIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031128277     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1997.8508     Document Type: Article

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