Role of integrins in melanocyte attachment and dendricity

Abstract excerpt

Integrins are a family of proteins known to mediate attachment of cells to extracellular matrix materials. The substratum specificity and cation dependence of specific integrin heterodimers have been extensively characterized, and to a lesser degree specialized roles in cell attachment versus dendricity have been defined in some cell types. In the past decade, melanocyte attachment rate and morphology have been...