Biomechanics of Active Movement and Division of Cells

Modelling of Biological Polymers: Discrete and Continuum Mechanics Formulations.- Cytokinesis: The Mechanism of Formation of the Contractile Ring in Animal Cell Division.- Effect of Cortex Stiffness Variation on Cleavage in Animal Cells.- Multicellular Mechanics in the Creation of Anatomical Structures.- The Interplay of Active Forces and Passive Mechanical Stresses in Animal Morphogenesis.- The Role of Elasticity in the Motile Behaviour of Cells.- On Free Boundary Problems and Amoeboid Motion.- A Model of the Leukocyte Migration Through Solid Tissue.- Adhesion and Traction Forces in Migration: Insights from Mathematical Models and Experiments.- The Active Response of an Endothelial Cell to the Onset of Flow.- Mechanical Aspects of Ciliary Propulsion.- Local Bending Fluctuations of the Cell Membrane.- Simulation of Morphogenetic Shape Changes Using the Finite Element Method.- Locomoting Blebbing Cells: A New Model to Test Whether Formation of Protrusions is Primarily due to Hydrostatic Pressure or to Actin Elongation.- Dynamic Morphology of Leukocytes: Statistical Analysis and a Stochastic Model for Receptor-Mediated Cell Motion and Orientation.- Observation, Modeling and Simulation of Keratinocyte Movement.- Strain Transduction in Non-Excitable Cells.- Self-Organization in Biological Systems as a Result of Interaction Between Active and Passive Mechanical Stresses: Mathematical Model.- Biomechanical Events in the Production of Ciliary Movement.- Microtubule Converging Centers: Implications for Microtubule Dynamics in Higher Plants.- Elastic Properties of Layered Membranes and Their Role in Transformations of Cellular Shapes.- Cortical Flow in Free-Living Amoebae.- A Mechanical Model for Growth and Control of the Cell Wall of Rod-Shaped Bacteria.- Measurement of Passiveand Active Force in Single Isolated Smooth Muscle Cells.- Molecular Mechanisms of Neutrophil Adhesion Studied by Inducing a High Avidity State at ?2-Integrin.- Mechanical Tension Regulates the Phenotype of Cells Cultured in a Collagen Gel.- The Mechanism of Actomyosin and Microtubule-Kinesin Systems.- Immunolocalization of Acetylated Microtubules in Germ Cells of Insects.- Mechanisms of ?1-Adrenergic Induced Positive Inotropism in Cardiac Cells.- Kinetochore Directional Instability in Vertebrate Mitotic Cells.- Signal Transduction and Myofibrillogenesis in Isolated Neonatal Heart Myocytes in Vitro.- Quantitative EMG and Biomechanics.- The Anaphase Movement and Its Relationship with Cell Cleavage.- Mechanism of Induction of Microspore Embryogenesis in Brassica napus: Significance of the Preprophase Band of Microtubules in the First Sporophytic Division.