Neurofilament polymer transport in axons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 30, 2005, Pages 7014-7021

  Yan, Yanping ^a   Brown, Anthony ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal transport (axoplasmic transport); Cytoskeleton; Fluorescence microscopy; Live cell imaging; Neurofilament; Ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN; POLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NEUROFILAMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RAT; SYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; NEURONS; POLYMERS; RATS; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 23044493091     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2001-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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