Equilibria of idealized confined astral microtubules and coupled spindle poles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Maly, Ivan V ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRAL MICROTUBULE; CELL DIVISION; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROTUBULE; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; MITOSIS SPINDLE; SPINDLE POLE BODY;

CELL DIVISION; MICROTUBULES; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 84862259757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038921     Document Type: Article

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