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Published in final edited form as: Cell Biophys. 1990 Dec;17(3):243–256. doi: 10.1007/BF02990720

Table 4.

Colocalization of cytosolic calcium rise and local microfilament accumulation in micropipette-aspirated cells.

		Localization of calcium rise
		Protrusion	Near pipette tip	Elsewhere	No calcium rise
*Localization of microfilament accumulation*	Protrusion	1	0	0	1
	Near pipette tip	1	5	2	3
	Elsewhere	1	0	0	0

Fourteen individual RBL cells were subjected to micropipette aspiration for 4 minutes under calcium monitoring, then fixed and stained with NBD-phallacidin. All cells displayed local microfilament accumulation, and ten of them exhibited a local calcium rise. The localization of both events is shown.