Large-scale microtubule networks contract quite well

The quantitative investigation of how networks of microtubules contract can boost our understanding of actin biology.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  eLife

• Publication date

  2016-02-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.7554/eLife.14076PMID 26880552PMCID 4764552
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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