Cell fusion
Subtitle: overviews and methods
By: edited by Elizabeth H. Chen.
Contributors: Chen, Elizabeth H.
Series: Methods in molecular biology -- 475; Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) -- v. 475.
Publisher: Humana
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Totowa, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781588299116
Subjects: Cell Fusion.; Cell Fusion -- methods.; Cell hybridization.; Molecular biology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Cell fusion; title: 1. Yeast mating, a model system for studying cell and nuclear fusion / Casey A. Ydenberg, Mark D. Rose; title: 2. Cell fusion in the filamentous fungus, neurospora crassa / André Flei€ner, Anna R. Simonin, N. Louise Glass; title: 3. Gametic cell adhesion and fusion in the uicellular alga chlamydomonas / Nedra F. Wilson; title: 4. Cell Fusion in caenorhabditis elegans / Scott Alper, Benjamin Podbilewicz; title: 5. Myoblast fusion in drosophila / Susan M. Abmayr, Shufei Zhuang, and Erika R. Geisbrecht; title: 6. Mammalian fertilization is dependent on multiple membrane fusion events / Paul M. Wassarman, Eveline S. Litscher; title: 7.  Molecular control of mammalian myoblast fusion / Katie M. Jansen, Grace K. Pavlath; title: 8. Placenta trophoblast fusion / Berthold Huppertz, Marcus Borges; title: 9. Macrophage fusion / Agnès Vignery; title: Pt. 2. Cell fusion assays; title: 10. Cell fusion assays for yeast mating pairs / Eric Grote; title: 11. Ultrastructural analysis of cell fusion in yeast / Alison E. Gammie; title: 12. Isolation and in vitro binding of mating type plus fertilization tubules from chlamydomonas / Nedra F. Wilson; title: 13. Optical imaging of cell fusion and fusion proteins in caenorhabditis elegans / Star Ems, William A. Mohler; title: 14. Ultrastructural imaging of cell fusion in caenorhabditis elegans / Star Ems, William A. Mohler; title: 15. Live imaging of drosophila myoblast fusion / Brian E. Richardson, Karen Beckett, Mary K. Baylies; title: 16. Ultrastructural Analysis of myoblast fusion in drosophila / Shiliang Zhang, Elizabeth H. Chen; title: 17. Genomic approach to myoblast fusion in drosophila / Beatriz Estrada, Alan M. Michelson; title: 18. Mesenchymal cell fusion in the sea urchin embryo / Paul G. Hodor, Charles A. Ettensohn; title: 19. Sperm-egg fusion assay in mammals / Naokazu Inoue, Masaru Okabe; title: 20. Quantitative assays for cell fusion / Jessica H. Shinn-Thomas, Victoria L. Scranton, William A. Mohler; title: 21. Fusion assays and models for the trophoblast / Sascha Drewlo, ... [et al.]; title: 22. Methods to fuse macrophages in vitro / Agnès Vignery.