See Also: contact sites B(medicine)
Contact sites A(medicine)
Pesto di rucola (rocket pesto sauce)(recipes)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital- Medicine Lodge(health)
attachment sites(medicine)
Injection Sites(health)
binding sites(medicine)
binding sites, antibody(medicine)
Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites(tourism)

Contact sites A (medicine) and pesto (iou)


Contact sites A (medicine)


contact sites A


Developmentally regulated adhesion sites that appear on the ends of aggregation competent Dictyostelium discoideum at the stage when the starved cells begin to come together to form the grex. Originally detected by the use of Fab fragments of polyclonal antibodies, raised against aggregation competent cells and adsorbed against vegetative cells, to block adhesion in EDTA containing medium. (Cell cell adhesion mediated by contact sites A, unlike that mediated by contact sites B, is not divalent cation sensitive). The fact that a mutant deficient in csA behaves perfectly normally in culture is puzzling.


pesto (iou)



pesto noun. M20.
[Italian, contr. of pestato pa. pple of pestare pound, crush.]
A sauce of crushed basil, nuts (esp. pine nuts), cheese, garlic, and olive oil, served with pasta and Other foods. Cf. PISTOU.