Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix.
Extracellular elastic fibers confer resilience and flexibility to tissues. Recent studies have identified a protein, fibulin-5, that connects these fibers to cells and regulates their assembly and organization.
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description | Extracellular elastic fibers confer resilience and flexibility to tissues. Recent studies have identified a protein, fibulin-5, that connects these fibers to cells and regulates their assembly and organization. |
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spelling | oxford-uuid:ee927fa2-b17a-4a5c-b96d-6627b43938612022-03-27T11:33:50ZElastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:ee927fa2-b17a-4a5c-b96d-6627b4393861EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2002Midwood, KSchwarzbauer, JExtracellular elastic fibers confer resilience and flexibility to tissues. Recent studies have identified a protein, fibulin-5, that connects these fibers to cells and regulates their assembly and organization. |
spellingShingle | Midwood, K Schwarzbauer, J Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix. |
title | Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix. |
title_full | Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix. |
title_fullStr | Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix. |
title_full_unstemmed | Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix. |
title_short | Elastic fibers: building bridges between cells and their matrix. |
title_sort | elastic fibers building bridges between cells and their matrix |
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