"Stress Fibers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D022502
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| MeSH Number(s) |
A11.284.430.214.190.750.050.830
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| Concept/Terms |
Stress Fibers- Stress Fibers
- Fiber, Stress
- Fibers, Stress
- Stress Fiber
- Stress Fibres
- Fibre, Stress
- Fibres, Stress
- Stress Fibre
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