The actin-bundling protein fascin is involved in the formation of dendritic processes in maturing epidermal Langerhans cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3776-3782

  Ross, Ralf ^a   Ross, Xiao Lan ^a   Schwing, Jens ^a   Längin, Tina ^a   Reske Kunz, Angelika B ^a,b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ANTISENSE OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; FASCIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITIC CELL; EPIDERMIS CELL; GROWTH CONE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; LANGERHANS CELL; MOUSE; NERVE GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION; LANGERHANS CELLS; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0032522837     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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