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. 2022 Apr 6;23(7):4055. doi: 10.3390/ijms23074055

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Adhesive, Traction, and Drag Forces in GBM. GBM upregulates various surface proteins, enabling it to adhere to the surfaces of healthy tissue; the increased adherence also helps GBM to resist the physical forces of other tissues or fluids via increased traction forces directly at the surface interface and drag forces at the free margins of the cancer.