Centrosome separation and central spindle assembly act in redundant pathways that regulate microtubule density and trigger cleavage furrow formation

Developmental Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 333-344

  Dechant, Reinhard ^a   Glotzer, Michael ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTROSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DENSITY; EMBRYO; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL DIVISION; CENTROSOME; EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN; KINESIN; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; NEMATODA;

EID: 0037347196     PISSN: 15345807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1534-5807(03)00057-1     Document Type: Article

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