ADF/cofilin controls cell polarity during fibroblast migration

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 252-257

  Dawe, Helen R ^a   Minamide, Laurie S ^b   Bamburg, James R ^b   Cramer, Louise P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR; LIM KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE; XENOPUS PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CHICK EMBRYO; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSEUDOPODIUM; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL POLARITY; CHICK EMBRYO; DESTRIN; FIBROBLASTS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASES; PSEUDOPODIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 12244303674     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(03)00040-X     Document Type: Article

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