Spindle Positioning: Actin Mediates Pushing and Pulling

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bezanilla, Magdalena ^a   Wadsworth, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MYOSIN;

ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS SPINDLE; MOUSE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; DYNEIN ATPASE; MICE; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; MYOSINS; OOCYTES;

EID: 60349086029     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.12.026     Document Type: Short Survey

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