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Imaging with WSPR allowed observation of the focal contacts without the need for immunostaining.

The WSPR experiments also indicated that TGF-βs influenced the distribution of focal contacts.

In conclusion, we showed that focal contacts are mechanoeffectors and that hyper-mechanical stimulation could up regulate focal contacts size as compared to hypo-mechanical that down regulate clusterization.

Cyclic deformation induced a biphasic response comprising new focal contacts formation followed by their clustering in ROS cells.

The RGD-conjugated peptides promoted human dermal fibroblasts spreading with well-organized actin stress fibers and focal contacts.

Cells of spindle and polygonal morphologies were randomly distributed on the random fibers, with no focal contacts observed.

On the other hand, p-FAK (Tyr-407), an inhibitory form of FAK, accumulated in the focal contacts of Ti-treated cells.

Pyk2 phosphorylated on Tyr-402 colocalized with paxillin in focal contacts of untreated cells, while it was barely detected upon exposure to particles.

In contrast, when seeded on laminin-5-functionalised native films, epithelial cells formed only very diffuse focal contacts, but adhered via hemidesmosome formation.

Cytoskeleton disassembly was associated with a reduction in overall cell adhesion area, characterized by fewer centrally localized focal adhesions and shorter focal contacts at the periphery.

Well-organized actin stress fibers and vinculin accumulated focal contacts were observed in the cells attached on the AG73 EF1zz (molar ratio = 1 9 chitosan membrane.