Cell Movement and Cell Behaviour - Lackie, J.M.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1986)
1 Introduction -- 1.1 Why is movement interesting? -- 1.2 What do we mean by 'movement'? -- 1.3 What causes movement? -- 1.4 An analogy -- 1.5 Motor design - an abstract exercise -- 1.6 How are movements controlled? -- 1.7 Which motor for the task? -- References -- 2 Motors Based on Actomyosin -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Components of the motor -- 2.3 The basic motor -- 2.4 Linear contractile systems -- 2.5 Non-linear: planar systems -- 2.6 Non-linear: solid systems -- 2.7 Control of the motor -- 2.8 Summary -- References -- 3 Motors Based on Microtubules -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Structure of microtubules -- 3.3 Dynein -- 3.4 The basic motor -- 3.5 Cilia and flagella -- 3.6 Movement in the mitotic spindle -- 3.7 Movement associated with cytoplasmic microtubules -- 3.8 Summary -- References -- 4 Motors of Other Sorts -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Bacterial flagella -- 4.3 Other bacterial motors -- 4.4 The spasmoneme of vorticellids -- 4.5 Assembly-disassembly motors -- 4.6 Hydraulic systems -- 4.7 Miscellaneous motor systems -- 4.8 Summary -- References -- 5 Swimming -- 5.1 General -- 5.2 Swimming -- 5.3 Methods of obtaining forward thrust -- 5.4 Control of the direction of ciliary beat -- 5.5 Summary -- References -- 6 Crawling Movement -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 A simplistic analysis of the problem -- 6.3 Amoeba -- 6.4 Fibroblast locomotion -- 6.5 Fibroblast spreading -- 6.6 Movement of other cell types -- 6.7 Summary -- References -- 7 Moving in a Uniform Environment -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Random walks and internal bias -- 7.3 Effects of changes in environmental properties -- 7.4 Roughness -- 7.5 Rigidity and deformability -- 7.6 Summary -- References -- 8 Anisotropic Environments -- 8.1 General -- 8.2 Trapping and avoidance -- 8.3 Gradients -- 8.4 Flow -- 8.5 Magnetic and electric fields -- 8.6 Gravity -- 8.7 Shape -- 8.8 Rigidity -- 8.9 Summary -- References -- 9 Chemotaxis -- 9.1 General -- 9.2 The problem - a theoretical analysis -- 9.3 Bacterial Chemotaxis -- 9.4 Chemotaxis in Paramoecium -- 9.5 Chemotaxis in the cellular slime-moulds -- 9.6 Chemotaxis in Myxobacteria -- 9.7 Chemotaxis of leucocytes -- 9.8 Summary -- References -- 10 Cell-Cell Interactions -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Contact inhibition of locomotion -- 10.3 Consequences of contact inhibition -- 10.4 Escape from normal contact inhibition -- 10.5 Invasiveness as a general phenomenon -- 10.6 Summary -- References.
Keywords: Animal anatomy; Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology