The contractile segment of the abneural limbus in the gecko cochlea is enriched in vimentin

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 330, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 405-412

  Ganeshina, Olga ^a   Kuznetsov, Sergei A ^b   Vorobyev, Misha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cochlear mechanics; Contractile cells; Hearing; Intermediate filaments; Lacertilia; Lizards

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; VIMENTIN;

ABNEURAL LIMBUS; ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARTILAGE; COCHLEA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIZARD; NANOANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; COCHLEA; CYTOSKELETON; LIZARDS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; VIMENTIN;

GEKKONIDAE; LACERTILIA; SQUAMATA;

EID: 36048987377     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-007-0475-6     Document Type: Article

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