Chapter 16. Adhesion of cells

P. Bongrand
Laboratoire d'Immunologie, Hôpital de Sainte-Marguerite,
BP29, 13277 Marseille Cedex 09, France

1. Introduction

2. Representative models of cell adhesion

2.1. Interaction between cytotoxic T lymphocytes and target cells
2.2. Neutrophil adhesion to endothelium
2.3. Interactions between cells and artificial surfaces

3.1. Cell shape control
3.2. Cell surface roughness: the submicrometer scale
3.3. Relevance of the concept of surface tension to biological membranes
3.4. Molecular structure of the cell surface

4.1. Cell-cell approach
4.2. Initiation of adhesion
4.3. Analysis of the 'equilibrium' shape of cell-cell contacts
4.4. Cell-cell separation

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