Cell behaviour
Cell behaviour: control and mechanism of motility
organized and edited by J. M. Lackie, G. A. Dunn, and G. E. Jones; 4th Abercrombie Conference on Cell Behaviour held at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 28 September - 1 October 1997
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1999.
ISBN: 0691009503
DDC: 572
LCC: QH345
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sect. 1. Introduction -- Patterns of cellular activities based on
protein sorting in cell motility, endocytosis and cytokinesis --
Sect. 2. Motile responses -- New depths in cell behaviour: reactions
of cells to nanotopography -- Self-organization of
tissue-equivalents: the nature and role of contact guidance --
Extracellular regulation of cancer invasion: the E-cadherin-catenin
and other pathways -- Sect. 3. Signal transduction -- Towards a
structural model of an integrin -- Integrin-mediated cell adhesion:
the cytoskeletal connection -- Wnt factors in axonal remodelling and
synaptogenesis -- Rho family proteins and cell migration --Rho-like
GTPases: their role in cell adhesion and invasion --
Sect. 4. Cytoskeletal dynamics -- Microtubule involvement in
regulating cell contractility and adhesion-dependent signalling: a
possible mechanism for polarization of cell motility -- Organization
and polarity of actin filament networks in cells: implications for
the mechanism of myosin-based cell motility -- Network contraction
model for cell translocation and retrograde flow -- Centrosomes,
microtubules and cell migration -- Cell migration as a five-step
cycle -- Sect. 5. Dynamics of motility -- Cytoskeletal protein
mutations and cell motility in Dictyostelium -- Cell crawling two
decades after Abercombie -- Using molecular genetics as a tool in
understanding crawling cell locomotion in myoblasts -- Forces in cell
locomotion -- Sect. 6. Prospects -- A dozen questions about how
tissue cells crawl.
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