Synopses & Reviews
Cell migration is a key component of many biological processes including embryonic development, immune responses, wound healing, organ regeneration, and cancer cell metastasis, thus making it an exciting and crucial field of study.
Table of Contents
1. Cell Migration: An Overview Miguel Vicente-Manzanares and Alan Rick Horwitz
2. Scratch-Wound Assay
Giles Cory
3. HGF-Induced DU145 Cell Scatter Assay
Sally T. Fram, Claire M. Wells, and Gareth E. Jones
4. Using the Dunn Chemotaxis Chamber to Analyze Primary Cell Migration in Real Time
Sanjay Chaubey, Anne J. Ridley, and Claire M. Wells
5. Imaging Cells Within 3D Cell Derived Matrix
Samantha J. King and Maddy Parsons
6. Live Cell Imaging of Neuronal Growth Cone Motility and Guidance In Vitro
Daniel M. Suter
7. Boyden Chamber
Marco Falasca, Claudio Raimondi, and Tania Maffucci
8. Transwell® Invasion Assays
John Marshall
9. Imaging Podosome Dynamics and Matrix Degradation
Taylor W. Starnes, Christa L. Cortesio, and Anna Huttenlocher
10. Endothelial Cell Migration Under Flow
Beata Wojciak-Stothard
11. In Vitro Analysis of Chemotactic Leukocyte Migration in 3D Environments
Michael Sixt
12. Quantification of Transendothelial Migration Using Three-Dimensional Confocal Microscopy
Robert J. Cain, Bárbara Borda d’Água, and Anne J. Ridley
13. Chemotaxis of Slow Migrating Mammalian Cells Analyzed by Video Microscopy
Roman Zantl and Elias Horn
14. Live Cell Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques
Shawn A. Galdeen and Alison J. North
15. Measuring Invasion in an Organotypic Model
Veronika Jenei, Maria L. Nystrom, and Gareth J. Thomas
16. Analysis of Cell Migration Using Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model System
Ming-Ching Wong, Maria Martynovsky, and Jean E. Schwarzbauer
17. Drosophila Hemocyte Migration: An In Vivo Assay for Directional Cell Migration
Carolina G.A. Moreira, Jennifer C. Regan, Anna Zaidman-Rémy, Antonio Jacinto,