Characterization of an extremely motile cellular network in the rotifer Asplanchna spp. Structure, kinetics, and the cytoskeleton

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 299, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 159-172

  Baumann, Otto ^a   Arlt, Kathleen ^a   Römmling, Katja ^a   Goller, Helmut ^b   Walz, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Actin filaments; Asplanchna spp. (Rotifera); Cell motility; Cytoskeleton; Intracellular transport; Microtubules

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; CYTOCHALASIN D; F ACTIN; PHALLOIDIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HELMINTH; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY, INTERFERENCE; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MOVEMENT; ORGANELLES; PSEUDOPODIA; ROTIFERA;

ANIMALIA; ASPLANCHNA; NEMATODA; ROTIFERA; VERMES;

EID: 0033980675     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410050014     Document Type: Article

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