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Microvilli (182 words) |
 | The microvilli are tiny, hairlike structures on the surface of epithelial cells involved in absorption and secretion. |
| The effect they have is to increase the surface area of the cell by a massive amount (in humans, by about 600-fold) and facilitate absorption and secretion. |
| The primary component of microvilli is actin filaments, which are also found in microtubules. |
| microvilli Dr.Jastrow's EM-Atlas (208 words) |
| Microvilli (Terminologia anatomica: Mikrovilli) are small finger-like protrusions of the cell membrane that are not actively motile. |
| Bundles of actin filaments embedded in cytoplasm are seen in the centres of microvilli. |
| Lots of different proteins often connected to enzymes are located in the outer cell membrane of microvilli of the epithelial cells of the gut. |
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