Lévy-like movement patterns of metastatic cancer cells revealed in microfabricated systems and implicated in vivo

Abstract Metastatic cancer cells differ from their non-metastatic counterparts not only in terms of molecular composition and genetics, but also by the very strategy they employ for locomotion. Here, we analyzed large-scale statistics for cells migrating on linear microtracks to show that metastatic...

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Main Authors: Sabil Huda, Bettina Weigelin, Katarina Wolf, Konstantin V. Tretiakov, Konstantin Polev, Gary Wilk, Masatomo Iwasa, Fateme S. Emami, Jakub W. Narojczyk, Michal Banaszak, Siowling Soh, Didzis Pilans, Amir Vahid, Monika Makurath, Peter Friedl, Gary G. Borisy, Kristiana Kandere-Grzybowska, Bartosz A. Grzybowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06563-w