Mechanical breaking of microtubules in axons during dynamic stretch injury underlies delayed elasticity, microtubule disassembly, and axon degeneration
Open Access
- 17 December 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The FASEB Journal
- Vol. 24 (5), 1401-1410
- https://doi.org/10.1096/fj.09-142844
Abstract
Little is known about which components of the axonal cytoskeleton might break during rapid mechanical deformation, such as occurs in traumatic brain injury. Here, we micropatterned neuronal cell cult...Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institutes of Health (NS‐056202, NS‐038104, NS‐048949)
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