Some observations on the structure and function of the spinning apparatus in the silkworm Bombyx mori

Biomacromolecules

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 175-181

  Asakura, Tetsuo ^a   Umemura, Kosuke ^a   Nakazawa, Yasumoto ^a   Hirose, Haruko ^b   Higham, James ^c   Knight, David ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TEIJIN LTD   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SHEAR FLOW; SPINNING MACHINES;

SILK GLAND DUCT; SILKWORM BOMBYX MORI;

SILK;

FIBROIN;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BODY FLUID; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GEL; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILKWORM; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BOMBYX; FIBROINS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; SILK;

BOMBYX MORI;

EID: 33846427680     PISSN: 15257797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bm060874z     Document Type: Article

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