Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells

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

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.

• Cell
• biochemistry
• biomechanics
• biophysics
• cell biology
• cells
• mechanics
• physiology

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

  Nuri Akkaş

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