Self-organization of treadmilling microtubules into a polar array

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 462-465

  Maly, Ivan V ^a   Borisy, Gary G ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; CALCULATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL POPULATION; CENTROSOME; CYTOPLASM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MELANOPHORE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CENTROSOME; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; MICROTUBULES;

ANIMALIA; MELANOPHORA;

EID: 0036809595     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0962-8924(02)02369-3     Document Type: Review

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