TitleDynamics of Cell and Tissue Motion [electronic resource] / edited by Wolfgang Alt, Andreas Deutsch, Graham A. Dunn
ImprintBasel : Birkhรคuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhรคuser, 1997
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8916-2
Descript XVI, 336 p. online resource

CONTENT

I Motile Dynamics at the Cellular Level โ Cytoplasmic Motion and Cell Shape โ -- I.1 Embryonic Mesoderm Cells and Larval Keratocytes from Xenopus: Structure and Motility of Single Cells -- I.2 Periodicity in Shape Changes of Human Epidermal Keratinocytes -- I.3 Self-organized F-Actin Autowaves Govern Pseudopodium Projection and the Non-random Locomotion of Dictyostelium Amoebae -- I.4 Mathematical Analysis of Cell Shape -- I.5 Protrusion, Retraction and the Efficiency of Cell Locomotion -- I.6 Microscopic Image Classification Based on Descriptor Analysis -- I.7 A Dynamical Model of Cell Division -- I.8 Shape Behavior of Closed Layered Membranes and Cytokinesis -- I.9 Protrusion-Retraction Dynamics of an Annular Lamellipodial Seam -- I.10 Auto-oscillatory Processes and Feedback Mechanisms in Physarum Plasmodium Motility -- I.11 Origin of Actin-induced Locomotion of Listeria -- I.12 Models for the Formation of Oriented F-actin Structures in the Cytoskeleton -- II Dynamics of Cell Interaction with the Environment -- II.1 Cell-Substratum Interactions of Amoeba proteus: Old and New Open Questions -- II.2 Imaging Traction Stresses -- II.3 Chemotaxis and Chemokinesis of Dictyostelium Amoebae: Different Accumulation Mechanisms Induced by Temporal Signals and Spatial -- II.4 Receptor-mediated Models for Leukocyte Chemotaxis -- II.5 A Model for Cell Migration by Contact Guidance -- II.6 Derivation of a Cell Migration Transport Equation from an Underlying Random Walk Model -- II.7 A Continuum Model for the Role of Fibroblast Contact Guidance in Wound Contraction -- II.8 Wound Healing and Tumour Growth โ Relations and Differences โ -- III Dynamics of Cell-Cell Interactions โ Collective Motion and Aggregation โ -- III.1 Models for Spatio-angular Self-organization in Cell Biology -- III.2 Aggregation Induced by Diffusing and Nondiffusing Media -- III.3 Models of Dictyostelium discoideum Aggregation -- III.4 A Cellular Automata Approach to the Modelling of Cell-Cell Interactions -- IV Dynamics within Tissues โ Morphogenesis and Plant Movement โ -- IV.1 Morphogenetic Dynamics in Tissues: Expectations of Developmental and Cell Biologists -- IV.2 Mechanical Stresses in Animal Development: Patterns and Morphogenetical Role -- IV.3 Mechanisms for Branching Morphogenesis of the Lung -- IV.4 Tissue Stresses in Plant Organs: Their Origin and Importance for Movements -- IV.5 Self-Organization and the Formation of Patterns in Plants -- IV.6 The Mathematics of Plate Bending -- IV.7 Mechanical Forces and Signal Transduction in Growth and Bending of Plant Roots -- IV.8 Growth Field and Cell Displacement within the Root Apex -- IV.9 The Stationary State of Epithelial Tissues -- References -- Group Picture -- Addresses


SUBJECT

  1. Mathematics
  2. Mathematics
  3. Mathematics
  4. general