Motion Analysis of Living Cells

About this book

Focuses on actin-based motility systems and draws on the latest advances in the techniques of biochemistry, biophysics, microscopy, computer-assisted motion analysis, and molecular genetics, the works in this collection will prove invaluable to future research.

Contents

Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis (J. Armitage & H. Packer). Two-- and Three--Dimensional Computer Systems for Analyzing How Animal Cells Crawl (D. Soll & E. Voss). Toward the Automated Dissection of Morphological and Molecular Dynamics of Living Normal and Transformed Cells (K. Guiliano, et al.). Forces and Mechanical Properties in Cell Locomotion (E. Elson, et al.). The Biochemistry of Animal Cell Crawling (J. Condeelis). Computer--Assisted Characterization of the Behavioral Defects of Cytoskeletal Mutants of Dictyostelium discoideum (D. Wessels & D. Soll). Topographical Control of Cell Migration (A. Curtis & C. Wilkinson). Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization (D. Fung & J. Theriot). Morphogenetic Cell Behaviors and Specification of Cell Fate During Early Teleost Development (M. Cooper & C. Kimmel). Neural Crest Migration (C. Krull & M. Bronner--Fraser). Neuronal Growth Cone Motility: Contributions from Neurogenetic Analyses of Cultured Drosophila Neurons (C. Wu). In Vivo Videomicroscopy of Experimental Hematogenous Metastasis: Cancer Cell Arrest, Extravasation, and Migration (I. MacDonald, et al.). Index.

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