Cytoskeleton: Axons Earn Their Stripes
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Axons must be supported by a strong and flexible cytoskeleton. New 'super-resolution' imaging of the submembranous axonal cytoskeleton reveals that it is organized in a periodic, ladder-like structure with alternating rings of actin linked together by intervening complexes of spectrin.
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JOCHEN WALTER, SIGRID HENKE-FAHLE and FRIEDRICH BONHOEFFER
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 23 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2013