Microtubule: A hollow, cylindric cytoplasmic element, 25 nm in diameter and of variable length, that occurs widely in the cytoskeleton, cilia, and flagella of cells; microtubules play a role in the maintenance of cell shape and increase in number during mitosis and meiosis, in which they are related to movement of the chromosomes by the nuclear spindle.
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Microtubule: a microscopically small tubule.
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Microtubule: slender tubular structures composed chiefly of tubulin; found in the cytoplasmic ground substance of nearly all cells; involved in maintenance of cell shape and in the movements of organelles and inclusions and form the spindle fibers of mitosis.
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Microtubule: Slender, cylindrical filaments found in the cytoskeleton of plant and animal cells. They are composed of the protein TUBULIN.
Source: MeSH 2007
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The following list attempts to classify Microtubule into categories where each line is subset of the next.
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