Cancer cell migration and invasion are integral components of metastatic disease, which is
the major cause of death in cancer patients. Cancer cells can disseminate and migrate via …

Postoperative adhesions (PA) are fibrotic tissues that are the most common driver of long-
term morbidity after abdominal and pelvic surgery. The optimal drug or material to prevent …

Chronic endometritis (CE) is an unusual inflammatory condition characterized by
endometrial plasmacyte infiltration. It has a high prevalence in women with reproductive …

Motility is a crucial activity of immune cells allowing them to patrol tissues as they
differentiate, sample or exchange information, and execute their effector functions. Although …

Accepted 21 September 2012 689 This journal is q 2012 The Royal Society with the systems
treated by statistical mechanics. However, a simple transition from a disordered to an …

Extracellular matrix (ECM) constantly undergoes remodeling to maintain the tissue
homeostasis and an impaired ECM remodeling is a hallmark of many diseases, including …

Adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) is a tumor suppressor whose mutations underlie familial
adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and colorectal cancer. Although its role in intestinal epithelial …

Lymphocytes have been described to perform different motility patterns such as Brownian
random walks, persistent random walks, and Lévy walks. Depending on the conditions, such …

Collective migration has become a paradigm for emergent behaviour in systems of moving
and interacting individual units resulting in coherent motion. In biology, these units are cells …

Cell dispersion from a confined area is fundamental in a number of biological processes,
including cancer metastasis. To date, a quantitative understanding of the interplay of single …