that facilitate their rapid movement on ECM substrates, whereas more contractile cells, such as migrating fibroblasts, endothelial and smooth muscle cells, have more prominent, stable adhesions ...

Transplanting myoblasts in a fluid containing ECM ... cells to create and augment existing muscle. However, it turns out that this is not so easy. Simply implanting myoblasts, precursors to ...

Chapel Hill): "The extracellular matrix (ECM) influences the growth, differentiation, motility, and morphologyof cells. In culture, most cells develop sites of adhesive interaction--known as focal ...

These molecules, upregulated in cancer cells ... human cardiac or skeletal muscle tissue, responsible for regulating lysosomal exocytosis through the promotion of focal adhesion maturation.