Birefringence imaging directly reveals architectural dynamics of filamentous actin in living growth cones

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 197-210

  Katoh, Kaoru ^a   Hammar, Katherine ^a   Smith, Peter J S ^a   Oldenbourg, Rudolf ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; GROWTH CONE; LAMELLIPODIUM; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REFRACTION INDEX;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0032917781     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.1.197     Document Type: Article

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