Systems biomechanics of centrosome positioning: A conserved complexity

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 230-235

  Maly, Ivan V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antigenpresenting cell; Caenorhabditis elegans; Lymphocyte; Microtubule organizing center; Modeling; Polarity; Polarization; Spindle; T cell

Indexed keywords

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

EID: 80155153033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.4.2.14548     Document Type: Article

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