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Connecting Filaments: A Historical Prospective

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Elastic Filaments of the Cell

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This short review covers the development of the extensible filament research from the very beginning until the most recent results. This work emphasizes the milestones of discovery, which led us from initial observations that were solely ultrastructural to the molecular understanding of the extensible process of these filaments.

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    Károly Trombitás

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Trombitás, K. (2000). Connecting Filaments: A Historical Prospective. In: Granzier, H.L., Pollack, G.H. (eds) Elastic Filaments of the Cell. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 481. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4267-4_1

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