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Assessment of Dictyostelium discoideum Response to Acute Mechanical Stimulation
Published on: November 9, 2017
Collective behavior of Dictyostelium discoideum monitored by impedance analysis
Edith Schäfer1, Dennis Aue, Marco Tarantola
1Institute of Physical Chemistry; Georg-August-University Göttingen; Göttingen, Germany.
Communicative & Integrative Biology
|May 29, 2013
Abstract:
Dictyostelium discoideum cells respond to periodic signals of extracellular cAMP by collective changes of cell-cell and cell-substrate contacts. This was confirmed by dielectric analysis employing electric cell-substrate impedance sensing (ECIS) and impedance measurements involving cell-filled micro channels in conjunction with optical microscopy providing a comprehensive picture of chemotaxis under conditions of starvation.

