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Focal Adhesions

"Focal Adhesions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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 the ACTIN CYTOSKELETON terminate and attach to the transmembrane linkers, INTEGRINS, which in turn attach through their extracellular domains to EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Focal Adhesions" by people in UAMS Profiles by year, and whether "Focal Adhesions" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 11 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 2002 and 2003 and 2008 and 2009 and 2010 and 2011 and 2012 and 2013 and 2016 and 2017 and 2019
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