Dimensional control of cancer cell migration

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¹ Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. kkonsta1@jhu.edu

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Konstantinos Konstantopoulos et al. Biophys J. 2013.

. 2013 Jan 22;104(2):279-80.

doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.12.016.

¹ Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. kkonsta1@jhu.edu

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Guidance of cell migration by substrate dimension.
Chang SS, Guo WH, Kim Y, Wang YL. Chang SS, et al. Biophys J. 2013 Jan 22;104(2):313-21. doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.12.001. Biophys J. 2013. PMID: 23442853 Free PMC article.

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