Perspective on circulating tumor cell clusters: why it takes a village to metastasize

M Giuliano, A Shaikh, HC Lo, G Arpino, S De Placido… - Cancer research, 2018 - AACR
Circulating tumor cell (CTC) clusters may represent one of the key mechanisms initiating the
metastasis process. However, the series of pathophysiologic events by which CTC clusters …

[HTML][HTML] Adjustable viscoelasticity allows for efficient collective cell migration

EH Barriga, R Mayor - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Cell migration is essential for a wide range of biological processes such as embryo
morphogenesis, wound healing, regeneration, and also in pathological conditions, such as …

An objective comparison of cell-tracking algorithms

V Ulman, M Maška, KEG Magnusson, O Ronneberger… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
We present a combined report on the results of three editions of the Cell Tracking
Challenge, an ongoing initiative aimed at promoting the development and objective …

Tissue topography steers migrating Drosophila border cells

W Dai, X Guo, Y Cao, JA Mondo, JP Campanale… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Moving cells can sense and respond to physical features of the microenvironment; however,
in vivo, the significance of tissue topography is mostly unknown. Here, we used Drosophila …

Constriction imposed by basement membrane regulates developmental cell migration

E Molina López, A Kabanova, A Winkel, K Franze… - Plos …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The basement membrane (BM) is a specialized extracellular matrix (ECM), which underlies
or encases developing tissues. Mechanical properties of encasing BMs have been shown to …

Coordination of protrusion dynamics within and between collectively migrating border cells by myosin II

AK Mishra, JA Mondo, JP Campanale… - Molecular biology of …, 2019 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Collective cell migration is emerging as a major driver of embryonic development,
organogenesis, tissue homeostasis, and tumor dissemination. In contrast to individually …

[HTML][HTML] Leaders in collective migration: are front cells really endowed with a particular set of skills?

E Theveneau, C Linker - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Collective cell migration is the coordinated movement emerging from the interaction of at
least two cells. In multicellular organisms, collective cell migration is ubiquitous. During …

Collective gradient sensing and chemotaxis: modeling and recent developments

BA Camley - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Cells measure a vast variety of signals, from their environment's stiffness to chemical
concentrations and gradients; physical principles strongly limit how accurately they can do …

Dmnet: Dual-stream marker guided deep network for dense cell segmentation and lineage tracking

R Bao, NM Al-Shakarji, F Bunyak… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Accurate segmentation and tracking of cells in microscopy image sequences is extremely
beneficial in clinical diagnostic applications and biomedical research. A continuing …

Biomechanics of collective cell migration in cancer progression: experimental and computational methods

CP Spatarelu, H Zhang, DT Nguyen… - ACS biomaterials …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cell migration is essential for regulating many biological processes in physiological or
pathological conditions, including embryonic development and cancer invasion. In vitro and …