Cell Migration: Guided Cell Migration on Microtextured Substrates with Variable Local Density and Anisotropy (Adv. Funct. Mater. 10/2009)

Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Morphology and Migration on Microtextured Titanium

The implant used in spinal fusion procedures is an essential component to achieving successful arthrodesis. At the cellular level, the implant impacts healing and fusion through a series of steps: first, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) need to adhere and proliferate to cover the implant; second, the MSCs must differentiate into osteoblasts; third, the osteoid matrix produced by the osteoblasts ne...

Turning On Cell Migration with Electroactive Substrates**

Herein we describe an electroactive substrate that was designed to turn on the migration of mammalian cells. The migration of cells is important in many developmental and disease processes that are temporally regulated.[1] Mechanistic studies of cell migrationÐwhich depend on specific interactions of cell-surface receptors with ligands of the extracellular matrix[2]Ðare complicated by the large...

Cancer cell migration on 2D deformable substrates

INFLUENCE OF NERVE TISSUE-DERIVED NEUROTRANSMITTERS ON MAST CELL MIGRATION

In vitro culture systems using bone marrow cells from BALB/C mice were set up in medium supplemented with spleen-derived medium. Bone marrow cells grown in spleen-derived medium gave rise to cultures containing >97% mast cells. The cells were used in polarisation chemotaxis assays with the intention of determining the effect of nerve tissue-derived neurotransmitters on mast cell migration. ...

I-18: Avian Chimeras and Germ Cell Migration

Background: In avian species, the germ line stem cell population arises outside of the embryonic gonad and proceeds on a circuitous migration to the germinal epithelium. Specifically, in the avian embryo, the process of germ line stem cell migration proceeds through a series of active and passive migratory phases. The germline stem cells or primordial germ cells (PGCs) located in the epiblast o...