Transport and turnover of microtubules in frog neurons depend on the pattern of axonal growth

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 821-829

  Chang, Sunghoe ^a   Rodionov, Vladimir I ^b   Borisy, Gary G ^b   Popov, Sergey V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mechanical tension; Microtubules; Neuronal cultures; Photobleaching; Slow axonal transport; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

BREFELDIN A; CONCANAVALIN A;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL ADHESION; GROWTH CONE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS;

EID: 0031913863     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-03-00821.1998     Document Type: Article

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