Axonal transport of neurofilaments: A single population of intermittently moving polymers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 746-758

  Li, Yinyun ^b   Jung, Peter ^b   Brown, Anthony ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROFILAMENT PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL TRANSPORT; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOMETRICS; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; AXONAL TRANSPORT; AXONS; FEMALE; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; OPTIC NERVE; POLYMERS; REACTION TIME; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84862942453     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4926-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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