Phenotype modulation in non-adherent and adherent sublines of Walker carcinosarcoma cells: The role of cell-substratum contacts and microtubules in controlling cell shape, locomotion and cytoskeletal structure

International Journal of Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 882-899

  Sroka, J ^a   Von Gunten, M ^a   Dunn, G A ^b   Keller, H U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actinin; Actin; Cell adhesion; Cell polarity; Contraction; Myosin; Nocodazole

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTININ; F ACTIN; MYOSIN; NOCODAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; CELL SPREADING; CELL TYPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LEUKOCYTE; MICROTUBULE; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; STRATUM CORNEUM; WALKER CARCINOMA;

ACTININ; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CARCINOMA 256, WALKER; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CELL SIZE; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; PHENOTYPE; RATS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0036227092     PISSN: 13572725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1357-2725(01)00178-9     Document Type: Article

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