Positioning of microtubule organizing centers by cortical pushing and pulling forces

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pavin, Nenad ^a,b   Laan, Liedewij ^c,e   Ma, Rui ^a,d   Dogterom, Marileen ^c   Jülicher, Frank ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

^d TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL TYPES; CENTER MORE; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; IN-VITRO; LIVING CELL; LONG AXIS; MICRO-CHAMBERS; MICROTUBULE ORGANIZING CENTERS; MICROTUBULES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY; POSITIONING PROCESS; PULLING FORCE; PUSHING FORCES; THEORETICAL RESULT;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 84869201844     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/10/105025     Document Type: Article

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