Quantitative analysis of keratin filament networks in scanning electron microscopy images of cancer cells

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 84-95

  Beil, M ^a   Braxmeier, H ^b   Fleischer, F ^b   Schmidt, V ^b   Walther, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Cytoskeleton; Filaments; Image analysis; Keratin; Scanning electron microscopy; Skeletonization; Statistical estimation

Indexed keywords

CANCER CELLS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DISEASES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KERATIN; MONOMERS; MORPHOLOGY;

CANCER CELLS; CYTOSKELETONS; FILAMENT; FILAMENT NETWORKS; IMAGE-ANALYSIS; KERATIN FILAMENTS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY IMAGE; SKELETONIZATION; STATISTICAL ESTIMATION; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTORS;

SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

KERATIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR ALPHA;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CANCER GROWTH; CELL SHAPE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 28544434916     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2005.01505.x     Document Type: Article

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