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Descriptor English: Microtubule-Organizing Center
Descriptor Spanish: Centro Organizador de los Microtúbulos
Descriptor centro organizador de los microtúbulos
Scope note: Una región amorfa del citoplasma con material electrodenso desde la cual se nuclea la polimerización de los MICROTÚBULOS. Un ejemplo es la región pericentriolar del CENTROSOMA que circunda a los CENTRIOLOS.
Descriptor Portuguese: Centro Organizador dos Microtúbulos
Descriptor French: Centre organisateur de microtubules
Entry term(s): MTOC
MTOCs
Microtubule Organizing Center
Microtubule-Organizing Centers
Tree number(s): A11.284.430.214.190.750.585
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D022101
Scope note: An amorphous region of electron dense material in the cytoplasm from which the MICROTUBULES polymerization is nucleated. The pericentriolar region of the CENTROSOME which surrounds the CENTRIOLES is an example.
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Microtubules (1973-2000)
Public MeSH Note: 2001; see CENTROSOME 1993-2000
History Note: 2001; use CENTROSOME 1993-2000
DeCS ID: 35281
Unique ID: D022101
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Date Established: 2001/01/01
Date of Entry: 2000/07/06
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Microtubule-Organizing Center - Preferred
Concept UI M0027611
Scope note An amorphous region of electron dense material in the cytoplasm from which the MICROTUBULES polymerization is nucleated. The pericentriolar region of the CENTROSOME which surrounds the CENTRIOLES is an example.
Preferred term Microtubule-Organizing Center
Entry term(s) MTOC
MTOCs
Microtubule Organizing Center
Microtubule-Organizing Centers



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