Live Cell-Imaging Techniques for Analyses of Microtubules in Dictyostelium

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 97, Issue C, 2010, Pages 341-357

  Samereier, Matthias ^a   Meyer, Irene ^a   Koonce, Michael P ^b   Gräf, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOOK; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DICTYOSTELIUM; FLUORESCENCE; KINETICS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EID: 77955636062     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)97018-0     Document Type: Book

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