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Abstract
Successful completion of meiosis in vertebrate oocytes requires the localization and maintenance of the meiotic spindle at the cell cortex. Arp2/3-nucleated actin filaments are now shown to flow away from the cortex overlying the spindle, resulting in cytoplasmic streaming, which maintains the spindle in its asymmetric position.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21968992 DOI: 10.1038/ncb2352
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Cell Biol ISSN: 1465-7392 Impact factor: 28.824