Cooperation of dual modes of cell motility promotes epithelial stress relaxation to accelerate wound healing.

Collective cell migration in cohesive units is vital for tissue morphogenesis, wound repair, and immune response. While the fundamental driving forces for collective cell motion stem from contractile and protrusive activities of individual cells, it remains unknown how their balance is optimized to...

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Main Authors: Michael F Staddon, Dapeng Bi, A Pasha Tabatabai, Visar Ajeti, Michael P Murrell, Shiladitya Banerjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6181425?pdf=render