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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.

Author/creator Abercrombie Conference on Cell Behaviour (1997 : St. Catherine's College, Oxford)
Other author/creatorLackie, J. M.
Other author/creatorDunn, Graham, 1944-
Other author/creatorJones, Gareth E., 1947-
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxiv, 346 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Biochemical society symposium ; no. 65
Biochemical Society (Great Britain). Symposium. Biochemical Society symposia ; no. 65. ^A654738
Contents 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 --
Contents 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.
Local noteJoyner-FOR JOYNER LIBRARY HOLDINGS OF THE SERIES, BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN). SYMPOSIUM. BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY SYMPOSIA, SEARCH BY CALL NUMBER QH345 .B522.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98089202
ISBN0691009503

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