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... > Fluids and Secretions > Body Fluids > Body Fluid Compartments > Intracellular Space > Cytoplasm > Cytoplasmic Structures > Cytoskeleton > Actin Cytoskeleton > Stress Fibers
... > Tissues > Body Fluid Compartments > Intracellular Space > Cytoplasm > Cytoplasmic Structures > Cytoskeleton > Actin Cytoskeleton > Stress Fibers
... > Cells > Cellular Structures > Intracellular Space > Cytoplasm > Cytoplasmic Structures > Cytoskeleton > Actin Cytoskeleton > Stress Fibers

Preferred term

Stress Fibers  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Fibres, Stress
  • Fibre, Stress
  • Stress Fibre
  • Stress Fibres

Scope note

  • Bundles of actin filaments (ACTIN CYTOSKELETON) and myosin-II that span across the cell attaching to the cell membrane at FOCAL ADHESIONS and to the network of INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS that surrounds the nucleus.

History note

  • 2001

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D022502

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