Reorganization and translocation of the ectoplasmic cytoskeleton in the leech zygote by condensation of cytasters and interactions of dynamic microtubules and actin filaments

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 214-230

  Fernández, Juan ^a   Cantillana, Viviana ^a   Ubilla, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton dynamics; Cytoskeleton translocation; Effect of taxol, phalloidin, microtubule poisons and drugs on the cytoskeleton; Leech zygote; Ooplasmic segregation; Zygote cytoskeleton

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; LATRUNCULIN B; PACLITAXEL; PHALLOIDIN; TUBULIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LEECH; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; VELOCITY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; COLCHICINE; CYTOSKELETON; FLUORESCENT DYES; INTERPHASE; LEECHES; MICROFILAMENTS; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, VIDEO; MICROTUBULES; PACLITAXEL; PHALLOIDINE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES; TIME FACTORS; ZYGOTE;

HIRUDINIDA; THEROMYZON; THEROMYZON TRIZONARE;

EID: 0036838198     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.10069     Document Type: Article

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