An introduction to the wound healing assay using live-cell microscopy

JEN Jonkman, JA Cathcart, F Xu… - Cell adhesion & …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
The wound healing assay is used in a range of disciplines to study the coordinated
movement of a cell population. In this technical review, we describe the workflow of the …

Collective behaviors of active matter learning from natural taxes across scales

F Ji, Y Wu, M Pumera, L Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Taxis orientation is common in microorganisms, and it provides feasible strategies to
operate active colloids as small‐scale robots. Collective taxes involve numerous units that …

Active wetting of epithelial tissues

C Pérez-González, R Alert, C Blanch-Mercader… - Nature physics, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract Development, regeneration and cancer involve drastic transitions in tissue
morphology. In analogy with the behaviour of inert fluids, some of these transitions have …

Unjamming overcomes kinetic and proliferation arrest in terminally differentiated cells and promotes collective motility of carcinoma

A Palamidessi, C Malinverno, E Frittoli, S Corallino… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
During wound repair, branching morphogenesis and carcinoma dissemination, cellular
rearrangements are fostered by a solid-to-liquid transition, known as unjamming. The …

Wnt/PCP signaling contribution to carcinoma collective cell migration and metastasis

K VanderVorst, CA Dreyer, SE Konopelski, H Lee… - Cancer …, 2019 - aacrjournals.org
Our understanding of the cellular mechanisms governing carcinoma invasiveness and
metastasis has evolved dramatically over the last several years. The previous emphasis on …

Polarity mechanisms such as contact inhibition of locomotion regulate persistent rotational motion of mammalian cells on micropatterns

BA Camley, Y Zhang, Y Zhao, B Li, E Ben-Jacob… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - pnas.org
Pairs of endothelial cells on adhesive micropatterns rotate persistently, but pairs of
fibroblasts do not; coherent rotation is present in normal mammary acini and kidney cells but …

Mechanics of epithelial tissues during gap closure

S Begnaud, T Chen, D Delacour, RM Mège… - Current opinion in cell …, 2016 - Elsevier
The closure of gaps is crucial to maintaining epithelium integrity during developmental and
repair processes such as dorsal closure and wound healing. Depending on biochemical as …

Isolation and characterization of N‐(2‐Hydroxyethyl)hexadecanamide from Colletotrichum gloeosporioides with apoptosis‐inducing potential in breast cancer cells

N Rai, P Gupta, A Verma, SK Singh, V Gautam - BioFactors, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Endophytic fungi are a well‐established reservoir of bioactive compounds that are
pharmaceutically valuable and therefore, contribute significantly to the biomedical field. The …

Facile Green Synthesis of Zingerone Based Tissue‐Like Biodegradable Polyester with Shape‐Memory Features for Regenerative Medicine

S **dal, K Ghosal, B Khamaisi… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The abundance of plants as a renewable bioresource has captured the significant attention
of researchers, driving them to explore new biodegradable polymeric materials. However …

How cells respond to environmental cues–insights from bio-functionalized substrates

V Ruprecht, P Monzo, A Ravasio, Z Yue… - Journal of cell …, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Biomimetic materials have long been the (he) art of bioengineering. They usually aim at
mimicking in vivo conditions to allow in vitro culture, differentiation and expansion of cells …