Evidences of new biophysical properties of microtubules

Focus on Artificial Neural Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 191-207

  Pizzi, Rita ^a   Strini, Giuliano ^a   Fiorentini, Silvia ^a   Pappalardo, Valeria ^b   Pregnolato, Massimo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

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