Microtubules and microscopes: How the development of light microscopic imaging technologies has contributed to discoveries about microtubule dynamics in living cells

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3263-3271

  Waterman Storer, Clare M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

CYTOCHEMISTRY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GROWTH CONE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG ALVEOLUS CELL; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031741908     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.9.12.3263     Document Type: Review

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