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Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1994

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Editors:
  1. Nuri Akkaş

    1. Department of Engineering Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

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Part of the book series: Nato ASI Subseries H: (ASIH, volume 84)

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Table of contents (34 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. Modelling of Biological Polymers : Discrete and Continuum Mechanics Formulations

    • Attila Askar
    Pages 1-35

  3. Cytokinesis: The Mechanism of Formation of the Contractile Ring in Animal Cell Division

    • Albert K. Harris
    Pages 37-66

  4. Effect of Cortex Stiffness Variation on Cleavage in Animal Cells

    • Nuri Akkas, Mina Kermanian
    Pages 67-85

  5. Multicellular Mechanics in the Creation of Anatomical Structures

    • Albert K. Harris
    Pages 87-129

  6. The Interplay of Active Forces and Passive Mechanical Stresses in Animal Morphogenesis

    • L. V. Beloussov
    Pages 131-180

  7. The Role of Elasticity in the Motile Behaviour of Cells

    • Jürgen Bereiter-Hahn, Holger Lüers
    Pages 181-230

  8. On Free Boundary Problems and Amoeboid Motion

    • Micah Dembo
    Pages 231-283

  9. A Model of the Leukocyte Migration Through Solid Tissue

    • Boguslaw A. Skierczynski, Shunichi Usami, Richard Skalak
    Pages 285-328

  10. Adhesion and Traction Forces in Migration: Insights From Mathematical Models and Experiments

    • Paul A. DiMilla
    Pages 329-368

  11. The Active Response of an Endothelial Cell to the Onset of Flow

    • Gabriel Helmlinger, Olivier Thoumine, Theodore F. Wiesner, Robert M. Nerem
    Pages 369-391

  12. Mechanical Aspects of Ciliary Propulsion

    • Michael E. J. Holwill
    Pages 393-413

  13. Local Bending Fluctuations of the Cell Membrane

    • Rafi Korenstein, Shmuel Tuvia, Leonid Mittelman, Shlomo Levin
    Pages 415-423

  14. Simulation of Morphogenetic Shape Changes Using the Finite Element Method

    • G. Wayne Brodland, David A. Clausi
    Pages 425-430

  15. Locomoting Blebbing Cells: A New Model to Test Whether Formation of Protrusions is Primarily Due to Hydrostatic Pressure or to Actin Elongation

    • H. U. Keller
    Pages 431-435

  16. Dynamic Morphology of Leukocytes: Statistical Analysis and a Stochastic Model for Receptor-Mediated Cell Motion and Orientation

    • Robert T. Tranquillo, Oana Brosteanu, Wolfgang Alt
    Pages 437-443

  17. Observation, Modeling and Simulation of Keratinocyte Movement

    • Wolfgang Alt, Hans Wilhelm Kaiser
    Pages 445-451

  18. Strain Transduction in Non-Excitable Cells

    • David B. Jones, Gunnar Leivseth
    Pages 453-457

  19. Self-Organization in Biological Systems as a Result of Interaction between Active and Passive Mechanical Stresses: Mathematical Model

    • Alexander A. Stein
    Pages 459-464

  20. Biomechanical Events in the Production of Ciliary Movement

    • Peter Satir
    Pages 465-470
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The NATO Advanced Study Institute on Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells was held September 19-29, 1993 in Istanbul and the Proceedings are presented in this volume. Sixty-eight scientists from sixteen countries attended. Prof. J. Bereiter-Hahn of Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt, Germany, Prof. A.K. Harris of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, Prof. R.M. Nerem of Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA and Prof. R. Skalak of the University of California, San Diego, USA were the members of the International Organizing Committee. As the Scientific Director of the Institute, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for their assistance without which the Institute could not have taken place. This Institute is the third one of the meetings which are now called "the NATO Istanbul Meetings on Cytomechanics". The first one was the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Biomechanics of Cell Division which was held October 12-17, 1986 in Istanbul. The Proceedings were published as NATO ASI Series A Life Sciences Vol. 132 by Plenum Press in 1987. The second one was the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Biomechanics of Active Movement and Deformation of Cells which was held September 3-13, 1989 in Istanbul. The Proceedings were published as NATO ASI Series H : Cell Biology Vol. 42 by Springer-Verlag in 1990.

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  • Department of Engineering Sciences, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

    Nuri Akkaş

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