Filopodia: fickle fingers of cell fate?
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- DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(99)80416-3
Filopodia: fickle fingers of cell fate?
Abstract
Epithelial cells often produce extensions, known variously as filopodia, cell feet or cytonemes, which can extend across many cell diameters to directly contact non-adjacent cells. Do they function in morphogenesis, cell-cell signaling or both?.
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