Image analysis tools to quantify cell shape and protein dynamics near the leading edge

Cell Structure and Function

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Ryan, Gillian L ^a   Watanabe, Naoki ^b   Vavylonis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cell motility; Cytoskeleton; Image analysis; Lamellipodium; Single molecule

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CELL PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL KINETICS; CELL LEVEL; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FLOW RATE; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT INTENSITY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTRUSION DYNAMICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETRACTION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; TIME; VELOCITY;

CELL ADHESION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROTEINS; PSEUDOPODIA;

EID: 84872574982     PISSN: 03867196     EISSN: 13473700     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1247/csf.12020     Document Type: Article

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