Microtubule dynamics: Treadmilling comes around again

Current Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  Waterman Storer, Clare M ^a   Salmon, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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EID: 0031172760     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(06)00177-1     Document Type: Article

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