are the largest filament in the cytoskeleton. They are the hollow tubes along which cell products are conducted long distances. The system is not unlike a railway network around the cell, sometimes involving long distances. For example, neurones transport out neurotransmitter substances along the axons to distant synapses, inside microtubules.
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<cell biology> Thin tubes made up of protein that are used to make structures involved in cellular movement such as flagella. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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A key structural element of the scaffolding structure of a cell or cytoskeleton.
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Type of filament in eukaryotic cells composed of units of the protein tubulin. Among other functions, it is the primary structural component of the eukaryotic flagellum.
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Tiny tubes found in almost all cells with a nucleus. They help to define the shape of a cell by forming scaffolding for cilia and they also form the fibres of mitotic spindle (see mitosis)
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