cell adhesion

  • 21adhesion molecules — cell surface molecules that are important for binding cells to neighbouring cells (intercellular adhesion molecules, ICMA) and tissues. Absence or weakening of intercellular binding facilitates the local spread of cancer …

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  • 22neural cell adhesion molecule — See NCAM …

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  • 23List of topics in cell biology — Cell invokes a major branch of theory and research known variously as cell biology, cellular biology or cytology. The study of cell tissues is known as histology. Cell types are often referred to using the suffixes blast, clast, cyte, especially… …

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  • 24cell-surface molecules — molecules on the surface of cell membranes that are responsible for most cellular functions directly related to their immediate environment. Many have very precise functions of adhesion (see adhesion molecules), metabolic exchange, hormone… …

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  • 25cell-surface molecules — molecules on the surface of cell membranes that are responsible for most cellular functions directly related to their immediate environment. Many have very precise functions of adhesion (see adhesion molecules), metabolic exchange, hormone… …

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  • 26Cell biology — Not to be confused with Cell (biology). Cell research redirects here. For the journal, see Cell Research (journal) …

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  • 27Cell surface receptor — The seven transmembrane α helix structure of a G protein coupled receptor Cell surface receptors (membrane receptors, transmembrane receptors) are specialized integral membrane proteins that take part in communication between the cell and the… …

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  • 28Cell-coat — Glycocalyx Le glycocalyx (ou feutrage micro fibrillaire ou cell coat ou encore glycolemme) est un élément ubiquitaire (existant chez tous les types cellulaires eucaryote) proposant une protection à la membrane externe de la cellule. Il est… …

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  • 29Cell — The basic structural and functional unit in people and all living things. Each cell is a small container of chemicals and water wrapped in a membrane. Each cell in the human body there are 100 trillion cells in each of us contains the entire… …

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  • 30adhesion plaque — Another term for a focal adhesion, a discrete area of close contact between a cell and a non cellular substratum, with cytoplasmic insertion of microfilaments and considerable electron density adjacent to the contact area. On the cytoplasmic face …

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