...Kozo Tsujikawa; Masao Tsujihata; Norihide Tei; Kazuhiro Yoshimura; Norio Nonomura; Akihiko Okuyama Introduction: Attachment of newly formed crystals to renal epithelial cells is considered to be a critical step in stone formation. Previously, we reported that exogenous fibronectin (FN; 220–240 kDa...

...Toshihiro Saito; Yoshihiko Tomita; Takashi Kawasaki; Vladimir Bilim; Kota Takahashi Introduction: In the process of tumor invasion and metastasis, interactions between tumor cells and extracellular matrix play a crucial role. Recently, it was shown that fibronectin binding to fibronectin receptor...