Studying kinetochore-fiber ultrastructure using correlative light-electron microscopy

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 115, Issue , 2013, Pages 327-342

  Booth, Daniel G ^a,b   Cheeseman, Liam P ^a   Prior, Ian A ^a   Royle, Stephen J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Correlative electron microscopy; Kinetochore fiber; Microtubule; Mitosis; Mitotic spindle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CORRELATIVE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HELA CELL; HUMAN; KINETOCHORE-FIBER; METHODOLOGY; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; SPINDLE APPARATUS; TUMOR CELL LINE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CORRELATIVE ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KINETOCHORE-FIBER; MICROTUBULE; MITOSIS; MITOTIC SPINDLE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; KINETOCHORES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROTUBULES; MITOSIS; SPINDLE APPARATUS;

EID: 84882681918     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407757-7.00020-7     Document Type: Chapter

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