Contribution to Book
Studying Axoplasmic Transport by Video Microscopy and Using the Squid Giant Axon as a Model System
Squid as Expirimental Animals
(1990)
Abstract
Microtubules are directly involved in many basic processes of eukaryotic cell function including division, growth, and locomotion of cells, and organelle transport. As a consequence, the study of microtubule function has become a major field of cell biology. The squid giant axon has recently been introduced as the ideal system to study microtubules and microtubule-associated motility such as organelle transport. At the same time this preparation made axoplasmic transport one of the most important paradigms for the study of all microtubule-based motility.
Keywords
- Cytology,
- Animals,
- Laboratory,
- Decapodiformes,
- Nervous System,
- Squids
Disciplines
Publication Date
1990
Editor
Gilbert, Daniel L., Adelman Jr., William J., Arnold, John M.
Publisher
Plenum Press
ISBN
978-0-306-43513-3
Publisher Statement
Gilbert, Daniel L. Arnold. Squid as Experimental Animals / Adelman, William J.,; 1928-. New York: Plenum Press, 1990.
Citation Information
Deiter G Weiss, Monica A Meyer and George M Langford. "Studying Axoplasmic Transport by Video Microscopy and Using the Squid Giant Axon as a Model System" New YorkSquid as Expirimental Animals (1990) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/george_langford/74/