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Cell adhesion is an important component of numerous biological responses including growth, differentiation, and motility. In many cultured cell lines, immunofluorescence studies have verified the co-localization of the fibronectin receptors talin and vinculin at specific cell-substrate attachment sites, which have initially been detected by interference reflection microscopy (IRM) and called “focal contacts” (Izzard and Lochner, 1976).
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Cambiaso, A., Tommasi, T., Parodi, M.T., Grattarola, M. (1995). Digital Acoustic Microscopy of Cell-Substrate Attachment: Experiments and Model Predictions. In: Jones, J.P. (eds) Acoustical Imaging. Acoustical Imaging, vol 21. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1943-0_66
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