Hexavalent chromium disrupts mitosis by stabilizing microtubules in Lens culinaris root tip cells

Physiologia Plantarum

Volumn 147, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 169-180

  Eleftheriou, Eleftherios P ^a   Adamakis, Ioannis Dimosthenis S ^a   Fatsiou, Maria ^a   Panteris, Emmanuel ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; CHROMIUM HEXAVALENT ION; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; NITROBENZENE DERIVATIVE; ORYZALIN; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; SULFANILAMIDE DERIVATIVE; TUBULIN;

ACETYLATION; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LENTIL; MERISTEM; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; PLANT CELL;

ACETYLATION; CHROMIUM; DINITROBENZENES; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; LENS PLANT; MERISTEM; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; PLANT CELLS; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; SULFANILAMIDES; TUBULIN;

ANIMALIA; LENS CULINARIS;

EID: 84872648613     PISSN: 00319317     EISSN: 13993054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3054.2012.01652.x     Document Type: Article

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