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Since then, the terminology has varied in the literature and extensions have been designated as pseudopodia [ 24], microextensions [ 25], retraction fibers [ 25], microspikes [ 26], filopodia [ 24, 27, 28], often without a clear definition of these terms.
A particularly clear example of this is the use of actin cytoskeleton as a “wool” for knitting multiple dynamic structures such as lamellae, filopodia, and stress fibres.
The filopodia of spreading 3T3 cells were extensively studied by Albrecht-Buehler et al [ 21, 27, 29], but ultramicroextensions were not described presumably because these studies were carried out during early spreading of 3T3 cells.
We currently believe that migrating cells extend and retract actin rich protrusions, lamellipodia and filopodia, into their environment.
Data from studies of in vivo and in vitro filopodia formation suggest that they develop as a reorganization of the dendritic network in which they exist [ 29 30 ] . In the presence of proteins that bundle and reorganize actin filaments into filopodial precursors, the de-localization of Arp2/3 and other leading edge components may lead to the formation of filopodia, which are then elongated as described above.