How microtubules get fluorescent speckles

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 2059-2069

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; MICROINJECTION; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031709675     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)77648-9     Document Type: Article

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