Microtubule dynamics in cell division: Exploring living cells with polarized light microscopy

Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 24, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-28

  Inoué, Shinya ^a  

^a MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Chromosome movement; Colchicine; Dynamic equilibrium; Microtubules; Mitosis; Polarized light microscopy; Spindle fibers

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE;

BIREFRINGENCE; CELL CYCLE ARREST; CELL CYCLE PHASE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTION; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DEPOLYMERIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FIBER; MICROSCOPE IMAGE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPE; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPINDLE CELL; SPINDLE POLE BODY;

ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOMES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 55849114833     PISSN: 10810706     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.cellbio.24.110707.175323     Document Type: Review

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