Directional motility was measured as an angular value between the direction of cell taxis and a fixed reference point at the edge of the Petri plate.
Carter, S. B. Principles of cell motility: the direction of cell movement and cancer invasion.
OFT myocardialization was disrupted with cardiomyocytes failing to align with the direction of cell invasion into the outflow cushions.
Another major research interest is multivalency and its role in recognition, signal transduction, and direction of cell fate.
One of these, involving the atypical cadherins Fat and Dachsous and the ectokinase Four-jointed, appears to link the direction of cell polarization to the tissue axes.
The direction of cell alignment was dependent on the scale of the topographical cues and, to less of an extent, the culture medium.
These continuous zigzag microchannels can guide the direction of cell movement even for cells with altered intracellular signals that promote random movement.
Components of the extracellular matrix can localize and modify growth factor signals, and by doing so impart instructional stimuli for direction of cell phenotype.
In particular, the speed and direction of cell crawling, as well as the rate of cell proliferation, vary with the substrate compliance and prestrain.
Extended culture of up to 2 weeks resulted in the formation of collagen fibers in the extracellular spaces, and the preferred orientation of these fibers was parallel to the direction of cell elongation.
In addition, we propose a new design direction of cell stack, which could be simpler and easier to fabricate, in which material can easily undertake the resulting stress based on the thermal stress analysis.
