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Filopodia: fickle fingers of cell fate?
1Developmental Biology Center, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
Current Biology : CB
|October 6, 1999
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?.