... © 1999 by Company of Biologists 1999 Cell behaviour Topographic guidance Spreading Contractility Actin cytoskeleton Microtubule Colcemid Taxol Scatter factor The two main types of tissue cells, fibroblasts and epitheliocytes, have different shapes, modes of locomotion...

... in the cell. * Author for correspondence at present address: Cancer Research Centre, Kashirscoye Shosse 24, Moscow 115487, Russia 12 08 1993 17 11 1994 © 1994 by Company of Biologists 1994 contact guidance cell behaviour topographic guidance actin cytoskeleton microfilament...

... part of epithelial cell islands, and the outgrowth of neurites from chick embryo neurones, were mainly unaffected by the grating surfaces. It is clear that topography on this scale can control cell behaviour, but guidance of this type is strongly dependent on cell type and cell-cell interactions...

... contact on the spreading of pigmented retina epithelial cells in culture . Expl Cell Res . 109 , 349 – 359 . 10.1016/0014-4827(77)90014-3 Middleton , C. A. ( 1982 ). Cell contacts and the locomotion of tissue cells . In Cell Behaviour (ed. A. S. G. Curtis , R. Bellairs...

... of cells moving toward a source of chemoattractant, in which case it is necessary to measure the cells’ positions over a period of time. From this, it can be seen that there are two classes of data commonly required in studies of cell behaviour: ‘static measures’, for example of spread areas, number...

... polarized morphology from cultures of this type. These findings are discussed in the light of similar investigations of cell behaviour in other epithelial cell types and fibroblasts. * Author for correspondence. 22 03 1985 24 04 1985 © 1985 by Company of Biologists 1985 cell...