Myosin-like Tactoids in Trypsin-treated Blood Platelets
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900 THE JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY ü VOLUME 50, 1971 ü pages 900-904 Since blood platelets are also known to be contractile and to contain an actomyosin-like protein, thrombosthenin (2), the equivalent experiment was carried out on them in an effort to induce aggregation of their myosin-like component into a form capable of being visualized and characterized in situ . Under the conditions used, thick filaments do in fact appear in some of the platelets; however, these inclusions are considerably
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of Cell Biology
دوره 50 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971