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  • noun biology A cytoskeletal actin projection on the mobile edge of the cell.

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  • Bar = 50 or 10 µm (D) Lamellipodial extension was quantified by summing the length of the outer margins of all lamellipodium in individual cells, and was expressed as

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shigeyuki Kanazawa et al. 2010

  • Stradal T, Vignal E, Rottner K (2002) The lamellipodium: where motility begins.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shigeyuki Kanazawa et al. 2010

  • Lamellipodial extension was quantified by summing the length of the outer margins of all lamellipodium in individual cells.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shigeyuki Kanazawa et al. 2010

  • Lamellipodial extension was quantified by summing the length of the outer margins of all lamellipodium in individual cells, and was expressed as a proportion of the total perimeter of each cell (lamellipodial index), as described by Verma et al. [24]. bFGF induced lamellipodial extension at 1 h

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shigeyuki Kanazawa et al. 2010

  • On the other hand, the cell shape of Rac1-inhibited cells at the wound edge showed less formation of lamellipodium (

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Shigeyuki Kanazawa et al. 2010

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