Measurement of Barbed Ends, Actin Polymerization, and Motility in Live Carcinoma Cells after Growth Factor Stimulation

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 207-217

  Lorenz, Mike ^a   DesMarais, Vera ^a   Macaluso, Frank ^a   Singer, Robert H ^a   Condeelis, John ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cofilin; Cytoskeleton; Fluorescence; GFP; Microscopy

Indexed keywords

ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 2; ACTIN RELATED PROTEIN 3; BETA ACTIN; BLOCKING ANTIBODY; COFILIN; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; F ACTIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GROWTH FACTOR;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARCINOMA CELL; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; CELL MOTILITY; CELL STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LAMELLIPODIUM; MICROSCOPY; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTORS; ACTINS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BIOTIN; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL MOVEMENT; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; FLUORESCENT DYES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROINJECTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MICROSCOPY, PHASE-CONTRAST; PHALLOIDINE; PSEUDOPODIA; RATS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; STRESS FIBERS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

EID: 1842427426     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.10171     Document Type: Article

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