Height changes associated with pigment aggregation in Xenopus laevis melanophores

Bioscience Reports

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 203-214

  Immerstrand, Charlotte ^a   Nilsson, Harriet M ^a,b   Lindroth, Margaretha ^a   Sundqvist, Tommy ^a   Magnusson, Karl Eric ^a   Peterson, Kajsa Holmgren ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Eli Lilly Sweden AB   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM); Melanophores; Pigment aggregation; Scanning electron microscopy (SEM); Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

AQUAPORIN; LATRUNCULIN B; MELATONIN; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; WATER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MIGRATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEIGHT; MELANOPHORE; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MELANOPHORES; MELANOSOMES; MELATONIN; MICROTUBULES; PIGMENTS, BIOLOGICAL; THIAZOLES; THIAZOLIDINES; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANURA; VERTEBRATA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 23944506309     PISSN: 01448463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10540-005-2581-6     Document Type: Article

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