(2015) PeakForce Tapping resolves individual microvilli on living cells. J. Mol ... yielding images that are dominated by the structure of the harder, underlying cytoskeleton and thus limiting ...

"Actin protrusions are a very common structure in the human body ... they appear to start as little microvilli. Hair cells somehow learned to take microvilli and exaggerate them and build ...

Microvilli still formed ... investigators for its role in linking protrusions on the inner ear hair cell -- a sensory structure involved in hearing. Genetic mutations that disable harmonin ...

called microvilli protein 1 (MVP1), finding that, within the epithelial cell, it interacts with human proteins that are responsible for maintaining structure and regulating cellular projections ...

revealing its striking similarity with the inner ear hair cell interstereocilia complex organizations, despite their minimal overlap in proteins. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

This view of a kidney epithelial cell provides important insights into how microvilli, which absorb nutrients, are created and how they behave. This view of a kidney epithelial cell provides important ...

The images show how the coronavirus alters the structure of the cells it ... Then there are the smaller microvilli that increase cells’ surface area to help with absorption.

we report that there is an apical actin-enriched structure in the pIIa and pIIb cells that contains numerous microvilli. The surface area of the actin-rich region and the number of microvilli are ...