"Intermediate Filaments" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Cytoplasmic filaments intermediate in diameter (about 10 nanometers) between the microfilaments and the microtubules. They may be composed of any of a number of different proteins and form a ring around the cell nucleus.
| Descriptor ID |
D007382
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.214.190.750.410
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| Concept/Terms |
Intermediate Filaments- Intermediate Filaments
- Filament, Intermediate
- Filaments, Intermediate
- Intermediate Filament
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Intermediate Filaments" by people in Profiles.
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Caspase cleavage of keratin 18 and reorganization of intermediate filaments during epithelial cell apoptosis. J Cell Biol. 1997 Sep 22; 138(6):1379-94.
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A histomorphologic and immunohistochemical study of chordoma in twenty ferrets (Mustela putorius furo). Vet Pathol. 1991 Nov; 28(6):467-73.
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Coalignment of microtubules, cytokeratin intermediate filaments, and collagen fibrils in a collagen-secreting cell system. Eur J Cell Biol. 1989 Dec; 50(2):510-21.
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Basal cell carcinoma with hyaline inclusions. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1989 Sep; 113(9):1015-8.
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Microtubules and the endoplasmic reticulum are highly interdependent structures. J Cell Biol. 1986 Oct; 103(4):1557-68.