flectopodium
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin flectō (“bend”) + -podium (“leg-like structure”).
Noun
[edit]flectopodium (plural flectopodia)
- (cytology) Flexible cytoplasmic protrusions that modify the normal contractile activity of pericytes.
- 2014 July 17, Elisabetta M. Caspani, Philip H. Crossley, Carolina Redondo-Garcia, Salvador Martinez, “Glioblastoma: A Pathogenic Crosstalk between Tumor Cells and Pericytes”, in PLOS One:
- Flectopodia are 7–30 µm long, present in 9% of GFP-actin+-cells on vessels (n = 266), with the ability to elongate for up to 20 µm or more, at a rate of 14–99 µm/hour, and to form a bent vessel segment in 30 minutes.