BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo have shown in two recently published papers that destabilization of structures called microtubules, intracellular highways that transport ...

Normally, Tau proteins stabilize microtubules and support neuronal function, but in neurodegenerative diseases such as ...

Hameroff points to studies that demonstrate that, in humans, applying sub-thermal tFUS to the hippocampus of Alzheimer’s ...

A Northwestern Medicine study has revealed a key mechanism underlying the development of motor neuron diseases, offering new insights into potential treatment options, according to a study published ...

Direct evidence that microtubules function as mechano-sensors and regulate the intracellular transport of molecules has been reported, leading to new possibilities in the fields of biomechanics, ...

The chromosomes, once they have duplicated genetic information, move to the center of the cell and the cell, in a very remarkable way, quickly sprouts from its two ends large tubes that hook the ...

Cell biologists say they have, for the first time, directly observed and recorded in animal cells a pathway called branching microtubule nucleation, a mechanism in cell division that had been imaged ...

Like poles support a tent, microtubules - hollow cylindrical structures made of tubulin protein - support eukaryotic cells. But microtubules provide more than just mechanical strength; they help ...

Almost all cell types exhibit some form of polarity; cell polarity refers to the spatial differences in shape, structure and function within a cell, which enables the cell to carry out specialized ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Indirect immunofluorescence microscopy was used to survey the three-dimensional distribution of microtubules throughout the cell cycle in the ...