Zebrafish vimentin: Molecular characterisation, assembly properties and developmental expression

European Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 175-187

  Cerdà, Joan ^a   Conrad, Matthias ^b   Markl, Jürgen ^b   Brand, Michael ^c   Herrmann, Harald ^a  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain development; Filaments; Retina intermediate; Vimentin; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LENS; MOLECULAR CLONING; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TEMPERATURE; TROUT; VISCOMETRY; ZEBRA FISH;

DANIO RERIO; SALMONIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0031792285     PISSN: 01719335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0171-9335(98)80105-2     Document Type: Article

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