Cancer cell motility: lessons from migration in confined spaces

CD Paul, P Mistriotis, K Konstantopoulos - Nature reviews cancer, 2017 - nature.com
Time-lapse, deep-tissue imaging made possible by advances in intravital microscopy has
demonstrated the importance of tumour cell migration through confining tracks in vivo. These …

Tumor cell migration in complex microenvironments

WJ Polacheck, IK Zervantonakis, RD Kamm - Cellular and Molecular Life …, 2013 - Springer
Tumor cell migration is essential for invasion and dissemination from primary solid tumors
and for the establishment of lethal secondary metastases at distant organs. In vivo and in …

Seeing around corners: Cells solve mazes and respond at a distance using attractant breakdown

L Tweedy, PA Thomason, PI Paschke, K Martin… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Cells migrate over long distances during normal embryonic development
and in disease, and they navigate through complex, branched paths. Chemotaxis, cell …

The computational boundary of a “self”: developmental bioelectricity drives multicellularity and scale-free cognition

M Levin - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
All epistemic agents physically consist of parts that must somehow comprise an integrated
cognitive self. Biological individuals consist of subunits (organs, cells, and molecular …

Directional tissue migration through a self-generated chemokine gradient

E Donà, JD Barry, G Valentin, C Quirin, A Khmelinskii… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The directed migration of cell collectives is a driving force of embryogenesis,,. The
predominant view in the field is that cells in embryos navigate along pre-patterned …

Micro total analysis systems: fundamental advances and applications in the laboratory, clinic, and field

ML Kovarik, DM Ornoff, AT Melvin, NC Dobes… - Analytical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Assay devices designed for these applications offer improvements to existing methods or
provide fundamentally new strategies. Both mature methods and novel techniques have …

Cell migration: from tissue culture to embryos

G Reig, E Pulgar, ML Concha - Development, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Cell migration is a fundamental process that occurs during embryo development. Classic
studies using in vitro culture systems have been instrumental in dissecting the principles of …

Mitochondrial localization and the persistent migration of epithelial cancer cells

SP Desai, SN Bhatia, M Toner, D Irimia - Biophysical journal, 2013 - cell.com
During cancer cell invasion, faster moving cancer cells play a dominant role by invading
further and metastasizing earlier. Despite the importance of these outlier cells, the source of …

Recent developments in microfluidics-based chemotaxis studies

J Wu, X Wu, F Lin - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic devices can better control cellular microenvironments compared to conventional
cell migration assays. Over the past few years, microfluidics-based chemotaxis studies …

Engineered models of confined cell migration

CD Paul, WC Hung, D Wirtz… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Cells in the body are physically confined by neighboring cells, tissues, and the extracellular
matrix. Although physical confinement modulates intracellular signaling and the underlying …