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Cellular-scale mechanism of cell crawling responding to substrate stiffness
Sohei Nakamura, Mitsusuke Tarama
Biological cells are able to adapt their behaviour in response to environmental cues. Durotaxis is a phenomenon in which cells adjust their migration depending on the mechanical pr…
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Simple model of cell crawling
Takao Ohta, Mitsusuke Tarama, Masaki Sano
Based on symmetry consideration of migration and shape deformations, we formulate phenomenologically the dynamics of cell crawling in two dimensions. Forces are introduced to chang…