Acute inactivation of tau has no effect on dynamics of microtubules in growing axons of cultured sympathetic neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 21, 1998, Pages 8660-8673

  Tint, Irina ^a   Slaughter, Theresa ^a   Fischer, Itzhak ^b   Black, Mark M ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon growth; Cultured sympathetic neurons; Microinjection; Microtubule dynamics; Microtubule associated proteins; Quantitative digital image analysis; Tau

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; TAU PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MICROINJECTION; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL;

EID: 0032211045     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-21-08660.1998     Document Type: Article

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