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Using molecular genetics as a tool in understanding crawling cell locomotion in myoblasts.
Biochemical Society symposium - 1 Jan 1999
Peckham M, Wells C, Taylor-Harris P, Coles D, Zicha D, Dunn G A
Abstract excerpt
We have used digitally recorded interference microscopy with automatic phase shifting (DRIMAPS) to investigate the crawling locomotion of normal and mutant mouse myoblasts. Contraction forces that give rise to cell body movement, tail retraction and cell adhesion to the substrate in myoblasts and other locomoting tissue cells arise from the interactions of actin and non-muscle myosin II. The activity of...
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