The role of vinculin in the cell adhesion strengthening process
Cell adhesion to extracellular matrices (ECM) is essential to numerous physiological and pathological processes. Cell adhesion is initiated by binding of the transmembrane integrin family of receptors to an ECM ligand such as fibronectin (FN). Once bound, integrins cluster together and form focal...
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Georgia Institute of Technology
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/43729 |