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What is a cytochalasin?

What is a cytochalasin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biochemistry) Any of several related fungal metabolites that have an effect on cytokinesis while not affecting karyokinesis
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At low concentrations, cytochalasin D is reported to inhibit actin polymerization.
We measured the effect of cytochalasin D mobilization of integrins on adhesion of a leukocyte cell line to both cultured endothelium and purified ligand substrates.
In experiments that test the effect of actin, cells were incubated for 30 min before experiments in medium containing 20 M cytochalasin D to disrupt actin filaments.

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