Cell behaviour
Subtitle: control and mechanism of motility
By: 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.
Contributors: Jones, Gareth E., 1947-; Dunn, Graham, 1944-; Lackie, J. M.
Series: Biochemical Society symposia -- no. 65.
Publisher: Portland on behalf of The Biochemical Society
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
Subjects: Cells -- Motility -- Congresses.; Cellular signal transduction -- Congresses.; Cells -- Motility -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sect.1. Introduction; title: Patterns of cellular activities based on protein sorting in cell motility, endocytosis and cytokinesis; title: Sect.2. Motile responses; title: New depths in cell behaviour: reactions of cells to nanotopography; title: Self-organization of tissue-equivalents: the nature and role of contact guidance; title: Extracellular regulation of cancer invasion: the E-cadherin-catenin and other pathways; title: Sect.3. Signal transduction; title: Towards a structural model of an integrin; title: Integrin-mediated cell adhesion: the cytoskeletal connection; title: Wnt factors in axonal remodelling and synaptogenesis; title: Rho family proteins and cell migration; title: Rho-like GTPases: their role in cell adhesion and invasion; title: Sect.4. Cytoskeletal dynamics; title: Microtubule involvement in regulating cell contractility and adhesion-dependent signalling: a possible mechanism for polarization of cell motility; title: Organization and polarity of actin filament networks in cells: implications for the mechanism of myosin-based cell motility; title: Network contraction model for cell translocation and retograde flow; title: Centrosomes, microtubules and cell migratin; title: Cell migration as a five-step cycle; title: Sect.5. Dynamics of motility; title: Cytoskeletal protein mutations and cell motility in Dictyostelium; title: Cell crawling two decades after Abercombie; title: Using molecular genetics as a tool in understanding crawling cell locomotion in myoblasts; title: Forces in cell locomotion; title: Sect.6. Prospects; title: A dozen questions about how tissue cells crawl.