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Nunu Mchedlishvili1, Helen K Matthews1, Adam Corrigan1

  • 1MRC Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biology and the IPLS, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.

BMC Biology
|January 25, 2018
PubMed
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Keywords:
Ensconsin/MAP7Microtubules Multipolar spindleMitosisNuclear envelope breakdownSpindle assembly

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