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uropod: a standalone construct

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uropod1 CONSTRUCTUropod (cell)SÁNCHEZ-MADRID · CELL BIOLOGY

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cell biology

The trailing membrane projection at the rear of a migrating leukocyte that concentrates adhesion molecules and drives detachment.

In cell biology, uropod refers to The trailing membrane projection at the rear of a migrating leukocyte that concentrates adhesion molecules and drives detachment. This meaning comes from Sánchez-Madrid (2009) in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. Here uropod is not a paired appendage of the last abdominal segment of many crustaceans that, with the telson, forms the tail fan used in the escape flip.[1]

Unit
cell protrusion
Recovery means
live-cell / fluorescence microscopy
Measured by
length (um), molecule enrichment

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References

  1. Sánchez-Madrid, F., & Serrador, J. M. (2009). Bringing up the rear: defining the roles of the uropod. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 10(5), 353-359. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrm2680

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