Symmetric cell division of the mouse zygote requires an actin network

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1040-1046

  Chew, Ting Gang ^a   Lorthongpanich, Chanchao ^a   Ang, Wei Xia ^a   Knowles, Barbara B ^a,b   Solter, Davor ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Astral microtubules; Cytokinesis; Preimplantation embryos; Spindle positioning

Indexed keywords

F ACTIN;

ANAPHASE; ARTICLE; BLASTOMA; CELL DIVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; INTERPHASE; METAPHASE; MITOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINDLE CELL; TELOPHASE; ZYGOTE;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; FEMALE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED DBA; MITOTIC SPINDLE APPARATUS; PREGNANCY; ZYGOTE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84871212236     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.21062     Document Type: Article

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