Tunneling nanotubes: Diversity in morphology and structure

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Austefjord, Magnus Wiger ^a   Gerdes, Hans Hermann ^a   Wang, Xiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Extracellular protrusions; Intercellular communication; TNT; Tunneling nanotube

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901321562     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.27934     Document Type: Article

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