Cell Response to Change in Force (IMAGE)

National Centre for Biological Sciences

Cell Response to Change in Force

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Here you can see the cell responding to change in strain/force by making membrane invaginations called reservoirs (red punctae) and endosomes (green punctae). These are two parallel responses by a cell to a decrease in membrane tension.

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Joseph Jose Thottacherry

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