Chapter 9 Fluorescent Speckle Microscopy of Spindle Microtubule Assembly and Motility in Living Cells

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 61, Issue C, 1998, Pages 155-173

  Waterman Storer, Clare ^a   Desai, Arshad ^b   Salmon, E D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CELL MOTION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 0032607419     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(08)61980-9     Document Type: Article

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