Class III β-tubulin is a component of the mitotic spindle in multiple cell types

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1113-1119

  Jouhilahti, Eeva Mari ^a   Peltonen, Sirkku ^a   Peltonen, Juha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Class III tubulin; Malignancy; Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor; Mitosis; Neurofibromas; TUBB3; Tuj1

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TUBULIN; BETA TUBULIN; CELL ANTIBODY; CELL MARKER; TUJ 1 ANTIBODY; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANAPHASE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELL TYPE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINESIS; DNA MICROARRAY; EMBEDDING; EPITHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; KERATINOCYTE; MALIGNANT PERIPHERAL NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; MESENCHYME CELL; METAPHASE; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NERVE SHEATH TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SCHWANN CELL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; NERVE SHEATH NEOPLASMS; NEUROFIBROMA; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHWANN CELLS; TUBULIN; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 56449123084     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1369/jhc.2008.952002     Document Type: Article

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