A gradient method for the quantitative analysis of cell movement and tissue flow and its application to the analysis of multicellular Dictyostelium development

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1994, Pages 97-104

  Siegert, Florian ^a   Weijer, Cornelis J ^a   Nomura, Atsushi ^b   Miike, Hidetoshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell movement; Chemotaxis; Dictyostelium discoideum; Digital image processing; Morphogenesis; Velocity vector field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MOTION; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GASTRULATION; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOGENESIS; NEURULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIDEORECORDING;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GASTROPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0028156996     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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