Medical Definition of Ectoplasmic tube contraction
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| Model for amoeboid movement in which it is proposed that protrusion of a pseudopod is brought about by contraction of the sub plasmalemmal region everywhere else in the cell thus squeesing the central cytoplasm forwards.
See: frontal zone contraction theory.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ectoplasmic Tube Contraction
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