Dynamic tensile forces drive collective cell migration through three-dimensional extracellular matrices

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Gjorevski, Nikolce ^a   Piotrowski, Alexandra S ^a   Varner, Victor D ^a   Nelson, Celeste M ^a,b  

^a Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering ^*  (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; GEL; GENETICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MOUSE; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

COLLAGEN TYPE 1; GEL; MKL1 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN TYPE I; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GELS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENSILE STRENGTH; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; TRANS-ACTIVATORS;

EID: 85018200780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/SREP11458     Document Type: Article

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