December 2012
Intermediate to advanced
338 pages
10h 8m
English
N.D. Gallant, University of South Florida, USA
This chapter reviews the quantification of cell adhesion and motility with a focus on the assays that enable these analyses. A description of these critical biological processes is provided and the characteristic parameters are described. Each assay is then classified according to the metrics used to quantify cell adhesion or locomotion. Finally, some recent advances and future prospects for the field are presented.
Key words
cell adhesion
cell motility
cell migration
integrin
chemotaxis
Cell adhesion and motility are fundamental processes essential to the development and maintenance ...
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