flectopodia

Noun

flectopodium (plural flectopodia)

1. Flexible cytoplasmic protrusions that modify the normal contractile activity of pericytes.
   • Flectopodia are 7–30 µm long, present in 9% of GFP-actin+-cells on vessels (n = 266), with the ability to elongate for up to 20 µm or more, at a rate of 14–99 µm/hour, and to form a bent vessel segment in 30 minutes.2014 July 17, Elisabetta M. Caspani, Philip H. Crossley, Carolina Redondo-Garcia, Salvador Martinez, “Glioblastoma: A Pathogenic Crosstalk between Tumor Cells and Pericytes”, in PLOS One