Geometry-driven polarity in motile amoeboid cells

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Nagel, Oliver ^a   Guven, Can ^b   Theves, Matthias ^a   Driscoll, Meghan ^b   Losert, Wolfgang ^b   Beta, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMOEBOID CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; CELL MOTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYNAMICS; EUKARYOTIC CELL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTERSTITIUM; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; SOIL STRUCTURE; TISSUE STRUCTURE; VELOCITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; DICTYOSTELIUM; LAB ON A CHIP; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY;

AMOEBA (GENUS); EUKARYOTA;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; CELL POLARITY; CELL WALL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DICTYOSTELIUM; LAB-ON-A-CHIP DEVICES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT;

EID: 84916897068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113382     Document Type: Article

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