Polarized microtubule arrays in apical dendrites and axons

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 32, 2008, Pages 11370-11375

  Kwan, Alex C ^a   Dombeck, Daniel A ^a,b   Webb, Watt W ^a  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracellular transport; Multiphoton microscopy; Neurons; Second harmonic generation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; IN VIVO STUDY; MICROTUBULE; MOUSE; MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE CULTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; AXONS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL POLARITY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE, MULTIPHOTON; MICROTUBULES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS;

EID: 49649104305     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0805199105     Document Type: Article

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