Vimentin

A type III intermediate filament

General references vimentin

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Miyaguchi K (1997). Ultrastructure of intermediate filaments of nestin- and vimentin-immunoreactive astrocytes in organotypic slice cultures of hippocampus. Journal of Structural Biology 120: 61-8.

Chiu FC, Norton WT & Fields KL (1981). The cytoskeleton of primary astrocytes in culture contains actin, glial fibrillary acidic protein, and the fibroblast-type filament protein, vimentin. Journal of Neurochemistry 37: 147-55.

Browning ET & Sanders MM (1981). Vimentin: a phosphoprotein under hormonal regulation. Journal of Cell Biology 90: 803-8.

Gard DL & Lazarides E (1980). The synthesis and distribution of desmin and vimentin during myogenesis in vitro. Cell 19: 263-75.

Franke WW, Schmid E, Winter S, Osborn M & Weber K (1979). Widespread occurrence of intermediate-sized filaments of the vimentin-type in cultured cells from diverse vertebrates. Experimental Cell Research 123: 25-46. No abstract available