Tissue integrity: hemidesmosomes and resistance to stress.
How do animal tissues resist the shearing forces to which they are exposed during locomotion or harsh encounters with the environment? Genetic analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans is furthering our understanding of the nature and function of the attachments that preserve tissue integrity.
Hahn
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Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS /INSERM /ULP, BP. 163, F-67404 Illkirch Cedex, France.
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D000818:Animals; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000502:physiology*; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000502:physiology*; D022002:Hemidesmosomes; D013312:Stress, Physiological; D014714:Vertebrates
D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules