Mechanical Cell-Matrix Feedback Explains Pairwise and Collective Endothelial Cell Behavior In Vitro

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  van Oers, René F M ^a,b,e   Rens, Elisabeth G ^a,b   LaValley, Danielle J ^c   Reinhart King, Cynthia A ^c   Merks, Roeland M H ^a,b,d  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b Netherlands Consortium for Systems Biology/Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology   (Netherlands)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CELL SIGNALING; COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CYTOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANISMS;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL BEHAVIOURS; CELL MATRIX; ENDOTHELIAL-CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; IN-VITRO; MECHANICAL CELLS; MECHANICAL MODELING; VASCULAR NETWORK; VITRO CULTURE;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

ANGIOGENESIS; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CHEMICAL MODEL; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANICS; PHYSICAL MODEL; SPROUT; SPROUTING; TUMOR SPHEROID; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BOVINAE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL MOTION; CELL SHAPE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MULTICELLULAR SPHEROID; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPHEROIDS, CELLULAR;

EID: 84922926839     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003774     Document Type: Article

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