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The cell-surface contact area was measured throughout several time points of adhesion to quantify cell spreading kinetics.

e.g. wound healing, and in tumour metastasis, when platelets adhering to circulating tumour cells may release VEGF at points of adhesion to endothelium, leading to hyperpermeability and extravasation of cells.

Cell extracellular matrix or cell surface interactions trigger cascades of signals via membrane proteins at points of adhesion that are transmitted through the cytoskeleton to the nucleus and determine stem cell homing, proliferation and differentiation processes [28].

Representative images of the aspirated osteoblasts in three sequenced time points of adhesion are shown in Figure 2. Cells were seeded onto the control and the chitosan surfaces at a density of 4 × 10 cells/cm and were allowed attaching for 30 or 60 min.

Using the laser tweezers assay, the time point of adhesion is tightly controlled and therefore the response in the range of seconds can be analyzed.

Such random migration is highly confined to a fixed spatial region surrounding the point of adhesion and does not show the long-range directed migration visualised in vivo, but it still displays formation of a biased lamellipodium in the direction of cell motion and moderate displacement of the cell body (supplementary material Movie 3).

We observed that introduction of asymmetry in the valve geometry created points of weak adhesion between the valve and the substrate, which facilitated opening of the valve at lower actuation pressures.

The force-deformation responses provide insight into similarities and differences in cytoskeletal microstructure between cells adhered to different substrates and in different time points of the adhesion process.

We observed in both galectin-1 stable and galectin-1 transient knockdown cells a loss of integrin-β1 on the cell membrane at points of focal adhesion complexes coincident with an increase in intracellular levels of integrin-β1.

In this work we used the micropipette aspiration technique to measure the elastic modulus of osteoblasts on chitosan-coated and control substrates in different time points of cell adhesion.

PKCε is an isoform of PKC and has been shown to translocate to the cell membrane at points of matrix adhesion in HeLa cells (10) and to contribute to haptotaxis (17).