Quantifying stretching and rearrangement in epithelial sheet migration

Quantifying stretching and rearrangement in epithelial sheet migration

Although understanding the collective migration of cells, such as that seen in epithelial sheets, is essential for understanding diseases such as metastatic cancer, this motion is not yet as well characterized as individual cell migration. Here we adapt quantitative metrics used to characterize the...

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Main Authors: Lee, Rachel M. (Author), Kelley, Douglas H. (Contributor), Nordstrom, Kerstin N. (Author), Ouellette, Nicholas T. (Author), Losert, Wolfgang (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials Processing Center (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2013-05-16T17:03:08Z.
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