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cond-mat.soft2013★ 64 cited
Geometric friction directs cell migration
M. Le Berre, Yan-Jun Liu, J. Hu +5
In the absence of environmental cues, a migrating cell performs an isotropic random motion. Recently, the breaking of this isotropy has been observed when cells move in the presenc…
cond-mat.soft2009★ 169 cited
Pushing off the walls: a mechanism of cell motility in confinement
R. J. Hawkins, M. Piel, G. Faure-Andre +4
We propose a novel mechanism of cell motility, which relies on the coupling of actin polymerization at the cell membrane to geometric confinement. We consider a polymerizing viscoe…