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To accomplish its cellular tasks, myosin II assembles into bipolar thick filaments and pull together oppositely oriented actin filaments to produce contractile forces.
At the cell edge the ultramicroextensions are derived from a deeper cytoskeletal meshwork (white arrowhead, Figure 2F) rather than from thick cytoskeletal filaments.
The mechanism underlying this cytoskeletal rearrangement due to shear stress is ill-defined, but it has been found to be linked to tyrosine kinase activity, levels of intracellular calcium, intact actin microfilaments, and functional microtubule network, but is independent of protein kinase C, intermediate filaments, and stretch- and shear-activated mechanosensitive K +channels [ 28].
decreased threshold to paw withdrawal following probing with non-noxious mechanical stimuli) consisted of measuring the withdrawal threshold of the paw ipsilateral to the site of nerve injury in response to probing with a series of calibrated von Frey filaments.
This effect is relatively specific since DOTMAC disrupted microtubules and they appeared as amorphous filaments (Figure 8D).