Cell cycle analysis and synchronization of the Xenopus laevis XL2 cell line: Study of the kinesin related protein XLEg5

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 31-42

  Uzbekov, Rustem ^a,b   Prigent, Claude ^a   Arlot Bonnemains, Yannick ^a  

^a Inst de Med Légale   (France)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MAMMALS; RNA; SYNCHRONIZATION;

CELL CYCLE; CELL CYCLE ANALYSIS; CELL LINES; CELL-FREE EXTRACTS; CULTURED CELL; KINESINS; MICROTUBULES; XENOPUS; XENOPUS EGGS; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

PROTEINS;

KINESIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE; DNA REPLICATION; GROWTH REGULATION; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0033119974     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19990401)45:1<31::AID-JEMT3>3.0.CO;2-K     Document Type: Article

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