Organelle transport in cultured smooth muscle cells of the rabbit basilar artery.
Organelle transport in cultured smooth muscle cell from the rabbit basilar artery was observed. The organelles transported in the cells were moving in both centrifugal and centripetal directions. The instantaneous velocities of organelles were 0.84 +/- 0.36 micron/s in the centrifugal direction and 0.86 +/- 0.48 micron/s in the centripetal direction. The transported organelles consisted mainly of lysosomes (67.5%) and mitochondria (29.0%).
Tanabe
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Y
Department of Neurosurgery, Yokohama City University, Japan.
Kano
M
M
Bandou
Y
Y
Kawakami
T
T
Fujii
S
S
Yamamoto
I
I
Takenaka
T
T
D000818:Animals; D001488:Basilar Artery / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008247:Lysosomes / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008297:Male; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology / Q000648:ultrastructure; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D015388:Organelles / Q000502:physiology*; D011817:Rabbits
D005456:Fluorescent Dyes