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The Keratocyte Cytoskeleton: A Dynamic Structural Network

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Dynamical Networks in Physics and Biology

Part of the book series: Centre de Physique des Houches ((LHWINTER,volume 10))

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Self directed movement is a quality we inherently identify with living things. Among multicellular animals the independent crawling of cells or groups of cells is important during embryonic development, wound healing, the cellular responses of the immune system, and tumor metastasis. As an introduction to my own studies of cell movement I would like to briefly highlight the development of ideas concerning active cell movement due to contractile forces generated inside the cell, and passive cell movement due to surface tension forces generated at the cell surface.

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Anderson, K.I. (1998). The Keratocyte Cytoskeleton: A Dynamic Structural Network. In: Beysens, D.A., Forgacs, G. (eds) Dynamical Networks in Physics and Biology. Centre de Physique des Houches, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03524-5_3

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