The cytoskeleton, cellular motility and the reductionist agenda

Nature

Volumn 422, Issue 6933, 2003, Pages 741-745

  Pollard, Thomas D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; MOLECULES; POLYMERS; PROTEINS;

CELLULAR MOTILITY;

CELLS;

POLYMER;

BIOLOGY; SKELETON;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL MOTILITY; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFECT; REVIEW;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EVOLUTION; GENE DELETION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; PSEUDOPODIA;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0037452054     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01598     Document Type: Review

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