Balance of mechanical forces drives endothelial gap formation and may facilitate cancer and immune-cell extravasation.

The formation of gaps in the endothelium is a crucial process underlying both cancer and immune cell extravasation, contributing to the functioning of the immune system during infection, the unfavorable development of chronic inflammation and tumor metastasis. Here, we present a stochastic-mechanica...

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Main Authors: Jorge Escribano, Michelle B Chen, Emad Moeendarbary, Xuan Cao, Vivek Shenoy, Jose Manuel Garcia-Aznar, Roger D Kamm, Fabian Spill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-05-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006395