GLG 598/490 xxxSpring '00

Gravity and Biology
Emily Holton, NASA Ames
 

ATTACHED CELLS

    Ingber, D. E. Tensegrity: The Architectural Basis of Cellular Mechanotransduction. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 59:575-59, 1997; The architecture of life. Scientific American, January 1998.

    Globus, R.K., S.B. Doty, J.C. Lull, E. Holmuhamedov, M.J. Humphries, and C.H.Damsky. Fibronectin is a survival factor for differentiated osteoblasts. J. Cell Sci. 111:1385-1393, 1998.

    Schwuchow J. and F.D. Sack FD. Microtubules restrict plastid sedimentation in protonemata of the moss Ceratodon. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 29:366-74, 1994.

    Wayne, R., M. P. Staves, and A. C. Leopold. The contribution of the extracellular matrix to gravisensing in characean cells. J. Cell Sci. 101:611-623, 1992.

    Spaceflight may directly affect attached cells and tissues even when isolated from systemic factors

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