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Focal Contact

Focal Contact Definition & Meaning
Focal Contact Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Medical Term Focal Contact?

An anchoring junction of the cell to a non-cellular substrate. It is composed of a specialized area of the plasma membrane where bundles of MICROFILAMENTS terminate and attach to the transmembrane linkers, INTEGRINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS.

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