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The phenotype induced by ADP-ribosylation of Rho in T lymphocytes appeared different than that induced in fibroblast models, where microinjection of C3 results in fibroblast retraction of pseudopodia, with the cell body rounding up eventually to become non-adherent [ 17 ] . Video time-lapse microscopy demonstrated the elongation of aberrant pseudopods in HPB-ALL cells plated on the β1 substrate VCAM-1, rather than an altered retraction of already formed pseudopods.
In most references, cells were rinsed with PBS (although PBS, in some references, means PBS that contains CaCl 2 and MgCl 2 ), but we preferred PBS(+) because retraction of cells were observed in a few minutes when the cells were exposed to PBS even briefly.
All three of the big dailies working today feature front-page stories about Time/CNN's retraction of its allegation that nerve gas was used against American defectors by U.S. troops in Laos in 1970, with considerable additional coverage inside.
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.
Filopodia or microspikes extend actively from the cell surface, whereas retraction fibers are extensions that have been left behind by a retracting lamellipodium or that are derived from an attached filopodium.