Altered drug resistance of microtubules in cells exposed to infrared light pulses: Are microtubules the 'nerves' of cells?

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-192

  Albrecht Buehler, Guenter ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrosome microtubules, nocodazole; CV1 cells; Near infrared

Indexed keywords

NOCODAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CENTROSOME; DRUG RESISTANCE; INFRARED RADIATION; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOPLASM; DRUG RESISTANCE; INFRARED RAYS; LINEAR MODELS; MICROTUBULES; NOCODAZOLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0031744907     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)40:2<183::AID-CM7>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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