Enhanced Diffusion in Active Intracellular Transport

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 5655-5658

  Caspi, Avi ^a   Granek, Rony ^a   Elbaum, Michael ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSPHERE; MOLECULAR MOTOR; POLYSTYRENE DERIVATIVE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ALGORITHM; CELL CULTURE; DIFFUSION; FIBROBLAST; FLOW KINETICS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; CELLS, CULTURED; DIFFUSION; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROSPHERES; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; POLYSTYRENES; RHEOLOGY;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CELLS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FRICTION; POLYSTYRENES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EUKARYOTIC CELL; INTRACELLULAR POLYMER NETWORKS; MICROSPHERE; NUCLEUS;

PROTEINS;

EID: 0034499331     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.5655     Document Type: Article

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