Cell Fusion: Overviews and Methods

Book Overview

Part I. Cell Fusion Yeast Mating, a Model System for Studying Cell and Nuclear Fusion Casey A. Ydenberg and Mark D. Rose Cell fusion in the filamentous fungus, Neurospora crassa Andr Flei ner, Anna R. Simonin and N. Louise Glass Gametic Cell Adhesion and Fusion in the Unicellular Alga, Chlamydomonas Nedra F. Wilson Cell Fusion in C. elegans Scott Alper and Benjamin Podbilewicz Myoblast Fusion in Drosophila Susan M. Abmayr, Shufei Zhuang, and Erika R. Geisbrecht Mammalian Fertilization is Dependent on Multiple Membrane Fusion Events Paul M. Wassarman and Eveline S. Litscher Molecular control of mammalian myoblast fusion Katie M. Jansen and Grace K. Pavlath Placenta Trophoblast Fusion Berthold Huppertz and Marcus Borges Macrophage Fusion: Molecular Mechanisms Agn s Vignery Part II: Cell Fusion Assays Cell fusion assays for yeast mating pairs Eric Grote Ultrastructural Analysis of Cell Fusion in Yeast Alison E. Gammie Isolation and in vitro Binding of mt(+) Fertilization Tubules from Chlamydomonas Nedra F. Wilson Optical Imaging of Cell Fusion and Fusion Proteins in Caenorhabditis elegans Star Ems and William A. Mohler Ultrastructural Imaging of Cell fusion in Caenorhabditis elegans Star Ems and William A. Mohler Live Imaging of Drosophila Myoblast Fusion Brian E. Richardson, Karen Beckett and Mary K. Baylies Ultrastructural Analysis of Myoblast Fusion inDrosophila Shiliang Zhang and Elizabeth H. Chen A genomic approach to myoblast fusion in Drosophila Beatriz Estrada and Alan M. Michelson Mesenchymal Cell Fusion in the Sea Urchin Embryo Paul G. Hodor and Charles A. Ettensohn Sperm-egg fusion assay in mammals Naokazu Inoue and Masaru Okabe Quantitative Assays of Cell Fusion in Cell Populations Jessica H. Shinn-Thomas, Victoria L. Scranton and William A. Mohler Fusion Assays and Models for the Trophoblast Sascha Drewlo, Dora Baczyk, Caroline Dunk and John Kingdom Methods to fuse macrophages in vitro Agn s Vignery

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617378402
• ISBN13: 9781617378409
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Humana
• Length: 421 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"