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 4.
MB coiling during platelet spreading. Related to Fig. 2 C. Time-lapse video microscopy of a microtubule tracker-stained human platelet spreading on a glass surface. Transmission (left) and fluorescence (right) images are taken simultaneously every 5 s for 19 min and 30 s using a laser-scanning confocal microscope (LSM 510). Bar, 2 µm