Different viruses rely on direct cell-to-cell transmission to propagate infection within the infected host. Measuring this mode of transmission in cultured cells is often complicated by the contribution of cell free viruses ...

The dynamics of in situ 2D HeLa cell quasi-linear and quasi-radial colony fronts in a standard culture medium is investigated. For quasi-radial colonies, as the cell population increased, a kinetic transition from an ...

The extracellular environment through which neural crest cells (NCCs) translocate and differentiate plays a crucial role in the determination of cell migration and homing. In the trunk, NCC-derived melanocyte precursor ...

After initiation of an infective cycle, spread of virus infection can occur fundamentally in two different ways: (i) viral particles can be released into the external environment and diffuse through the extracellular space ...

This volume presents an assortment of traditional and emerging experimental procedures relevant to Schwann cell research. The chapters are divided into four parts. Part I contains protocols for in vitro culture, purification, ...

Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) results from death of insulin-secreting b cells mediated by self-immune cells, and the consequent inability of the body to maintain insulin levels for appropriate glucose homeostasis. ...

Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) can be maintained as homogeneous populations in the ground state of pluripotency. Release from this state in minimal conditions allows to obtain cells that resemble those of the early ...

In the last decade, the cellular Potts model has been extensively used to model interacting cell systems at the tissue-level. However, in early applications of this model, cell movement was taken as a consequence of membrane ...

One of the strategies employed in immunotherapy for cancer is to use of ex vivo-generated dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with tumor antigens. Several approaches have been used to obtain and load tumor antigens in DC. One such ...