Abstract
Cell migration is a fundamental procedure involved in many physiological processes such as embryological development, tissue formation, immune defense or inflammation, and cancer progression. Here, we provide four in vitro assays that describe step-by-step cell adhesion, migration and invasion strategies, and their corresponding image data quantification. These methods include the following: two-dimensional wound healing assays, two-dimensional individual cell-tracking experiments by live cell imaging, and three-dimensional spreading and transwell assays. These optimized assays will facilitate physiological and cellular characterization of cell adhesion and motility, which may be used for fast screening of specific therapeutic drugs for adhesion function, novel strategies in pathophysiological diagnosis, and assaying new molecules involved in migration and invasion metastatic properties of cancer cells.
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Pijuan, J., Macià, A., Panosa, A. (2023). Live Cell Adhesion, Migration, and Invasion Assays. In: Friedrich, O., Gilbert, D.F. (eds) Cell Viability Assays. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2644. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3052-5_20
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