EFFECT OF COLCHICINE AND VINBLASTINE ON THE TOPOGRAPHICAL SEPARATION OF MEMBRANE FUNCTIONS

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1 July 1972

journal article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine

Vol. 136 (1) , 1-7
https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.136.1.1

Abstract

The topographical separation of membrane functions into phagocytic and transport areas, inferred from physiological studies, is not demonstrable in cells treated with colchicine and vinblastine, alkaloids which bind to microtubular proteins.

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