Shedding light and electrons on the lamellipodium: Imaging the motor of crawling cells

BioTechniques

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 780-789

  Vignal, Emmanuel ^a   Resch, Guenter P ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL KINETICS; CELL MOTILITY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LAMELLIPODIUM; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037389761     PISSN: 07366205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2144/03344bi01     Document Type: Article

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