Microtubule bending and breaking in living fibroblast cells

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 112, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3283-3288

  Odde, David J ^a,c   Ma, Le ^b   Briggs, Amelie H ^a   DeMarco, Alyssa ^a   Kirschner, Marc W ^b  

^a Michigan Technological University   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of Minnesota ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Fluorescence microscopy; Mechanochemistry; Molecular biomechanics; Tubulin

Indexed keywords

TUBULIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FIBROBLAST; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3T3 CELLS; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; ENERGY METABOLISM; KINETICS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MICROTUBULES; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032705482     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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