Quantifying stretching and rearrangement in epithelial sheet migration
Although understanding the collective migration of cells, such as that seen in epithelial sheets, is essential for understanding diseases such as metastatic cancer, this motion is not yet as well characterized as individual cell migration. Here we adapt quantitative metrics used to characterize the...
Main Authors: | , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2013-01-01
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Series: | New Journal of Physics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/15/2/025036 |