Overview
- Interdisciplinary perspective on cell migration
- Experimental and theoretical developments
- From fundamental science to applications
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1146)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Readers will find a detailed discussion of the properties of individual and collective cell migration, including the associated biochemical regulation and important biophysical and biomechanical aspects. The book includes information on the latest experimental techniques employed to study cell migration, from microfluidics to traction force microscopy, as well as the latest theoretical and computational models used to interpret the experimental data. Finally, the role of cell migration in cancer and in development is also reviewed.
The contents of this work should appeal to students and researchers in biology and biophysics who want to get up to date on the latest interdisciplinarydevelopment in this broad field of research. The chapters are written in a self-contained form and can also be used as individual articles.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cell Migrations: Causes and Functions
Editors: Caterina A. M. La Porta, Stefano Zapperi
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17593-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17592-4Published: 04 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17595-5Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17593-1Published: 14 October 2019
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 135
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cell Biology, Computational Biology/Bioinformatics, Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Biological Techniques