Neurofilament sidearms modulate parallel and crossed-filament orientations inducing nematic to isotropic and re-entrant birefringent hydrogels

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Deek, Joanna ^a,b   Chung, Peter J ^b   Kayser, Jona ^c   Bausch, Andreas R ^c   Safinya, Cyrus R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTROPY; POLARIZATION; RHEOLOGY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CELL ORGANELLE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDROGEL; IONIC STRENGTH; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOUSE; NEUROFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; POLARIZATION MICROSCOPY; WATER RETENTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84881170268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3224     Document Type: Article

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