Taxol suppresses dynamics of individual microtubules in living human tumor cells

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 947-959

  Yvon, Anne Marie C ^a   Wadsworth, Patricia ^a   Jordan, Mary Ann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PACLITAXEL;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; TUMOR CELL CULTURE;

EID: 0032933622     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.10.4.947     Document Type: Article

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