Ulrike Gimsa, Veronika Kralj-Iglic, Jan Gimsa, and Ales Iglic

pp. 771 - 776

Abstract

Nano- and microtubular structures have recently become a subject of increasing interest due to
their importance in biology and medicine as well as their technological potential. Such structures have been
observed in anorganic (Iijima, 1991) as well as in organic (Schnur 1993; Oda et al. 1991) systems. Micro- and
nanotubular protrusions of bilayer membranes have been found in cells (Kralj-Iglic et al. 1998; Kralj-Igliš
et al. 2001a) and phospholipid vesicles (Kralj-Iglic et al. 2002; Kralj-Iglic et al. 2001b). In this work we
describe membrane protrusions in microglial cells.