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Of The Enforcer (1976) , Schickel notes, "Certainly today, attitudes having radically changed, Clint would retract [the movie's] casual contempt for homosexuals, admittedly a feature of his early action films."
It's true that some Flytrap allegations were poorly sourced and that two respected news organizations, the Wall Street Journal and the Dallas Morning News , had to retract a couple of particularly lurid stories.
Although the cellular mechanisms remain poorly defined, it is now clear that zeiosis is associated with apoptotic cell death (for review [ 24 30 ] ). In static images, the morphological changes associated with apoptosis appear as membrane blebs covering the surface of the cells [ 31 32 33 ] . However, time-lapse images reveal that blebs protrude and retract in a dynamic fashion, a hallmark of zeiosis [ 22 23 ] . Dynamic membrane blebbing appears to involve a dramatic change in the cytoskeleton and may be induced by a caspase-3-mediated cleavage of ROCK-I, a Rho-activated serine/threonine kinase known to stimulate actinomycin-based contractions [ 31 32 33 ] . A similar profile can be seen in the videos of MTX-induced cell death in the presence of U73343 ( Files 2 and 3 ). The cells first lose adhesion to the coverslip, retract and roundup.
For starters, why did it take him 16 months to retract lies he claims to have immediately regretted?
Protrusions that adhere strongly enough are stabilized and fail to retract.