Jamming and arrest of cell motion in biological tissues

E Lawson-Keister, ML Manning - Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Collective cell motility is crucial to many biological processes including morphogenesis,
wound healing, and cancer invasion. Recently, the biology and biophysics communities …

Phase-field modeling of individual and collective cell migration

A Moure, H Gomez - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Cell motion is crucial in human health and development. Cells may migrate individually or in
highly coordinated groups. Cell motion results from complex intra-and extra-cellular …

Cell position fates and collective fountain flow in bacterial biofilms revealed by light-sheet microscopy

B Qin, C Fei, AA Bridges, AA Mashruwala, HA Stone… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Bacterial biofilms represent a basic form of multicellular organization that confers survival
advantages to constituent cells. The sequential stages of cell ordering during biofilm …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanochemical feedback loop drives persistent motion of liposomes

M Fu, T Burkart, I Maryshev, HG Franquelim… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Achieving autonomous motion is a central objective in designing artificial cells that mimic
biological cells in form and function. Cellular motion often involves complex multiprotein …

Membrane ruffling is a mechanosensor of extracellular fluid viscosity

M Pittman, E Iu, K Li, J Chen, S Potnikov, Y Chen - Biophysical Journal, 2022 - cell.com
Throughout the body, cells are immersed in extracellular fluids (ECFs) that are typically
orders of magnitude more viscous than water or culture medium. Changes in the viscosity of …

Is polydopamine beneficial for cells on the modified surface?

Y Yu, X Wang, Y Zhu, Y He, H Xue… - Regenerative …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Since the pioneering work of Messersmith's group discovering that polydopamine (PDA) can
serve to adhere to many types of materials, the PDA coating has, as a biomimetic approach …

[HTML][HTML] The frequent sampling of wound scratch assay reveals the “opportunity” window for quantitative evaluation of cell motility-impeding drugs

S Kauanova, A Urazbayev, I Vorobjev - Frontiers in cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Wound healing assay performed with automated microscopy is widely used in drug testing,
cancer cell analysis, and similar approaches. It is easy to perform, and the results are …

Enlargement, reduction, and even reversal of relative migration speeds of endothelial and smooth muscle cells on biomaterials simply by adjusting RGD nanospacing

J He, Q Liu, S Zheng, R Shen, X Wang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Although many tissue regeneration processes after biomaterial implantation are related to
migrations of multiple cell types on material surfaces, available tools to adjust relative …

Picking winners in cell-cell collisions: Wetting, speed, and contact

P Zadeh, BA Camley - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Groups of eukaryotic cells can coordinate their crawling motion to follow cues more
effectively, stay together, or invade new areas. This collective cell migration depends on cell …

Transient superdiffusion of polydisperse vacuoles in highly motile amoeboid cells

S Thapa, N Lukat, C Selhuber-Unkel… - The Journal of …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We perform a detailed statistical analysis of diffusive trajectories of membrane-enclosed
vesicles (vacuoles) in the supercrowded cytoplasm of living Acanthamoeba castellanii cells …