Cell Migrations: Causes and Functions

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: La Porta, Caterina A. M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Zapperi, Stefano (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 1146
• Subjects: Cell biology.; Bioinformatics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Biology-Technique.; Cell Biology.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.; Biological Techniques.

Cell migration plays an important role during development and in many physiological and pathological processes, from wound healing to cancer. This edited volume presents a collection of contributions meant to illustrate the state of the art on this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective. Reader...

Table of Contents:

• Computational modeling of Collective Cell Migration: Mechanical and biochemical aspects
• Contour models of cellular adhesion
• Force and Collective Epithelial Activities
• Continuum models of collective cell migration
• Statistical features of collective cell migration
• Cell migration in microfluidic devices: Invadosomes formation in confined environments
• Collective Cell Migration in Development
• Nuclear mechanics and cancer cell migration.