Concept

Amoeboid movement

Related publications (40)

Dynamics of actin and myosin II during cell polarization and directional locomotion

Crawling cell motility is characteristic of most animal cells and is involved in many important biological processes such as embryogenesis, immune response, and wound healing. It involves several steps: protrusion (dynamic surface extension) at the front o ...

EPFL2006

Structure and dynamics of actin network at the leading edge of migrating cells

Sébastien Schaub

Crawling motion is characteristic of most animal cells and is principally based on actin-myosin II cytoskeletal system. The major components and reactions contributing to motility have been identified, but the overall picture of how these molecular events ...

EPFL2006

Molecularly engineered PEG hydrogels: A novel model system for proteolytically mediated cell migration

Matthias Lütolf, Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Model systems mimicking the extracellular matrix (ECM) have greatly helped in quantifying cell migration in three dimensions and elucidated the mol. determinants of cellular motility in morphogenesis, regeneration, and disease progression. Here the authors ...

2005

Overexpression of VEGF-C causes transient lymphatic hyperplasia but not increased lymphangiogenesis in regenerating skin

Melody Swartz

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C is necessary for lymphangiogenesis and holds potential for lymphangiogenic therapy in diseases lacking adequate lymphatic drainage. However, the ability of VEGF-C to enhance sustainable, functional lymphatic grow ...

2005

Gradient of Rigidity in the Lamellipodia of Migrating Cells Revealed by Atomic Force Microscopy

Giovanni Dietler, Jean-Jacques Meister, Sandor Kasas, Alexandre Yersin

Changes in mechanical properties of the cytoplasm have been implicated in cell motility, but there is little information about these properties in specific regions of the cell at specific stages of the cell migration process. Fish epidermal keratocytes wit ...

2005

Calcium dynamics and vasomotion in rat mesenteric arteries

Nikolaos Stergiopoulos, Jean-Jacques Meister, Jean-Louis Bény, Alexander Schuster, Mathieu Lamboley

Smooth muscle cell calcium dynamics and diameter were measured in intact pressurized rat mesenteric artery segments during vasoconstriction and vasomotion. Arteries showed a certain norepinephrine (NE) threshold (0.3-0.4 microM) for the onset of vasomotion ...

2004

Orientational order of the lamellipodial actin network as demonstrated in living motile cells

Jean-Jacques Meister, Sébastien Schaub

Lamellipodia of crawling cells represent both the motor for cell advance and the primary building site for the actin cytoskeleton. The organization of actin in the lamellipodium reflects actin dynamics and is of critical importance for the mechanism of cel ...

American Society for Cell Biology2003

Analysis of actin dynamics at the leading edge of crawling cells: implications for the shape of keratocyte lamellipodia

Jean-Jacques Meister, Alex Mogilner

Leading edge protrusion is one of the critical events in the cell motility cycle and it is believed to be driven by the assembly of the actin network. The concept of dendritic nucleation of actin filaments provides a basis for understanding the organizatio ...

Springer Verlag2003

Pathogens, toxins and lipid rafts

Françoise Gisou van der Goot Grunberg, Laurence Gouzi Abrami

The plasma membrane is not a uniform two-dimensional space but includes various types of specialized regions containing specific lipids and proteins. These include clathrin-coated pits and caveolae. The existence of other cholesterol- and glycosphingolipid ...

1999

Simultaneous measurements of actin filament turnover, filament fraction, and monomer diffusion in endothelial cells

Jean-Jacques Meister

The analogous techniques of photoactivation of fluorescence (PAF) and fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) have been applied previously to the study of actin dynamics in living cells. Traditionally, separate experiments estimate the mobility o ...

Elsevier1998

Graph Chatbot

Chat with Graph Search

Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.

DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.