Three-dimensional numerical model of cell morphology during migration in multi-signaling substrates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Mousavi, Seyed Jamaleddin ^a,b   Doweidar, Mohamed Hamdy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b BIOMATERIALES Y NANOMEDICINA CIBER BBN   (Spain)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS CONCERNING THE ENTIRE ORGANISM; CELL ELONGATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRESS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOTAXIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROTAXIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; MICROENVIRONMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMOTAXIS; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CELL MOTION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHMS; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL SHAPE; CHEMOTAXIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84926373824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0122094     Document Type: Article

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