KITLG and neoplasm: Also, as detachment curves from NCF and Mgrt cell experiments exhibit significantly more of both jumps and tethers compared with SCF and CF cells (Fig 9), it implies that increases in adhesive interactions with both, receptors that are tightly associated (jumps) and weakly or not associated (tethers) with the cytoskeleton, are involved in the overall increase in the strength of adhesion between NCF and Mgrt ECs with tumor cells.