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Filopodia (sg.: filopodium) are
slender cytoplasmic projections that
extend beyond the
leading edge of
lamellipodia in
migrating cells.
Within the lamellipodium...
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Dendritic filopodia are small,
membranous protrusions found primarily on
dendritic stretches of
developing neurons.
These structures may
receive synaptic...
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classified by
their distinct appearances.
Lamellipodia are
broad and thin.
Filopodia are slender, thread-like, and are
supported largely by microfilaments...
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morphology controlled by Rho
proteins is the
formation of
lamellipodia and
filopodia,
projecting processes that look like "fingers" or "feet" and
often propel...
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Fimbrin is an
actin cross-linking
protein important in the
formation of
filopodia.
Fimbrin belongs to the
calponin homology (CH)
domain superfamily of actin...
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broad sheet-like protrusions, and
filopodia,
which are long
slender pointed extensions, is that
lamellipodia and
filopodia are
especially significant for...
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cytoskeleton Cell
movement flagella flagella and cilia;
lamellipodia and
filopodia Mitochondria none one to
several thousand Chloroplasts none in
algae and...
- The fine
extensions of the
growth cone are
pointed filopodia known as microspikes. The
filopodia are like the "fingers" of the
growth cone; they contain...
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abundance of
intercellular connections,
including possible cytonemes,
filopodia and
other epithelial bridges. (These
cells have
endocytosed 25x73 nm colloidal...
- unbranched,
granular filopodia. They lack cilia, have a
spherical shape of
around 3 μm in diameter, and
extend about six
extremely thin
filopodia that lie flat...
