Motion Analysis of Living Cells

by Soll, David R.; Wessels, Deborah

• ISBN13: 9780471159155
• ISBN10: 0471159158
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-24
• Publisher: Wiley-Liss

Summary

A groundbreaking treatment of motion analysis of animal cells, Motion Analysis of Living Cells is a thorough review for professionals as well as a comprehensive introduction for students and researchers in the field. It is must reading for cell and developmental biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, neuroscientists, cancer researchers, zoologists, and basic researchers in reproductive medicine.

Author Biography

David R. Soll is a Professor of Biology at the University of Iowa. He is best known for the motion analysis of living cells, the discovery of Candida albicans phenotypic switching and monoclonal antibody technology. Deborah Wessels is the editor of Motion Analysis of Living Cells, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
David R. Soll
Deborah Wessels
Contributors	xi
1 Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis	1	(24)
Judith P. Armitage
Helen L. Packer
2 Two- and Three-Dimensional Computer Systems for Analyzing How Animal Cells Crawl	25	(28)
David R. Soll
Edward Voss
3 Toward the Automated Dissection of Morphological and Molecular Dynamics of Living Normal and Transformed Cells	53	(14)
Kenneth A. Guiliano
Robbin DeBiasio
Patricia Feineigle
D. Lansing Taylor
4 Forces and Mechanical Properties in Cell Locomotion	67	(18)
Elliot L. Elson
S. F. Felder
P. Y. Jay
M. S. Kolodney
C. Pasternak
5 The Biochemistry of Animal Cell Crawling	85	(16)
John Condeelis
6 Computer-Assisted Characterization of the Behavioral Defects of Cytoskeletal Mutants of Dictyostelium discoideum	101	(40)
Deborah Wessels
David R. Soll
7 Topographical Control of Cell Migration	141	(16)
Adam Curtis
Chris Wilkinson
8 Movement of Bacterial Pathogens Driven by Actin Polymerization	157	(20)
David C. Fung
Julie A. Theriot
9 Morphogenetic Cell Behaviors and Specification of Cell Fate During Early Teleost Development	177	(44)
Mark S. Cooper
Charles B. Kimmel
10 Neural Crest Migration	221	(14)
Catherine E. Krull
Marianne Bronner-Fraser
11 Neuronal Growth Cone Motility: Contributions from Neurogenetic Analyses of Cultured Drosophila Neurons	235	(28)
Chung-Fang Wu
12 In Vivo Videomicroscopy of Experimental Hematogenous Metastasis: Cancer Cell Arrest, Extravasation, and Migration	263	(26)
Ian C. MacDonald
Eric E. Schmidt
Vincent L. Morris
Alan C. Groom
Ann F. Chambers
Index	289