Model for self-polarization and motility of keratocyte fragments

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 70, 2012, Pages 1084-1092

  Ziebert, Falko ^a,b,c   Swaminathan, Sumanth ^d   Aranson, Igor S ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUT CHARLES SADRON   (France)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

^e ARGONNE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin self assembly; Cell motility; Nonlinear physics

Indexed keywords

CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLARIZATION; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL BOUNDARY; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPES; COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING; INTERPRETATION OF EXPERIMENTS; KERATOCYTES; NONLINEAR PHYSICS; PHASE-FIELD APPROACHES; REGULATORY PATHWAY; SHAPE OSCILLATION; VECTOR FIELDS;

CYTOLOGY;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL SHAPE; CORNEA CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLARIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84860761612     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0433     Document Type: Article

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