Ecdysteroid-dependent tissue differentiation and synthesis of cytoskeletal elements in an epithelial cell line from Chironomus tentans

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 839, Issue , 1998, Pages 469-471

  Fretz, Andreas ^a   Lezzi, Markus ^b   Spindler, Klaus Dieter ^c  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ECDYSTEROID; TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE LOCATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TISSUE DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALIA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS TENTANS;

EID: 0032524261     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb10837.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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