How does metastatic melanoma cells look like?
By Phartoonz
Updated
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In melanoma cells (Evil Cells) :
Yellow color : The podosomes .
Blue Color : Cell nuclei.
Red Color : actin.
Green Color : actin regulator.
The proliferation of melanoma cells depends on their actin rich core structure as described above with its colors.
Source of image : NCI Center for Cancer Research
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