Published January 20, 2014 // JCB vol. 204 no. 2 177-185
The Rockefeller University Press, doi: 10.1083/jcb.201306085

Motor-driven marginal band coiling promotes cell shape change during platelet activation

Video 2.
Transiently activated platelets have acetylated, coiled MBs. Related to Fig. 2 A. Transiently activated platelets present in PRP prepared from freshly drawn blood, fixed, and stained with an anti–acetylated tubulin antibody. Three representative examples of platelets are shown by 360° rotations after 3D reconstruction of confocal z-stack images acquired with a laser-scanning confocal microscope (LSM 510). Bars, 2 µm.