Spindle asymmetry: A compass for the cell

Trends in Cell Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 562-569

  Kusch, Justine ^a   Liakopoulos, Dimitris ^a   Barral, Yves ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 1; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 2; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 4; PROTEINASE ACTIVATED RECEPTOR 5; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL POLARITY; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HOMEOSTASIS; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SPINDLE POLE BODY;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0142185099     PISSN: 09628924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tcb.2003.09.008     Document Type: Review

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