Stretching fibronectin
- 1 January 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Muscle Research and Cell Motility
- Vol. 23 (5/6), 575-580
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1023427026818
Abstract
Fibronectin (FN) matrix fibrils assembled in cell culture have been observed to stretch in response to cell movements, and when broken relax to 1/3 to 1/4 of their rest length. Two molecular...This publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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