Symmetry versus Asymmetry in Cell Biology
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Life Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2022) | Viewed by 4253
Special Issue Editors
2. "Victor Babes" National Institute of Pathology, 050096 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: prognostic markers; cancer biomarkers; cancer biology; cancer metastasis; metastasis
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2. Faculty of Medicine, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania
Interests: skeletal muscle; myogenesis; regeneration; cell culture; regenerative medicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Far from obvious sometimes, symmetry can be easily disclosed in almost every domain of cell biology. Usually properly associated with cell morphology or architecture (structure and ultrastructure), symmetry and asymmetry can be also viewed, metaphorically, as a yin and yang that the equilibrium of cell function(s) is relying on.
We are soliciting contributions (research and review articles) covering a broad range of topics on symmetry versus asymmetry in cell biology, including (though not limited to) the following:
- Molecular mechanisms of cell polarization
- Symmetric versus asymmetric cell division
- Mechanisms of asymmetry during development
- Symmetry breaking cell signals
- Dorsiventrality, patterns and branching systems
- Symmetry versus asymmetry in molecular cell interactions
- Cell space fillers: staking and packing
- Symmetry breaking during movements
- Maintaining internal (a)symmetries (spatial or temporal regulators of localization or interaction)
- Exploiting symmetry in antiviral strategies
- Apoptosis and a(symmetry)
- Organelle shape and cell activity
Dr. Mihail E. Hinescu
Dr. Laura Cristina Ceafalan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Cell polarization
- Asymmetric cell division
- Symmetry breaking in development
- Dorsiventrality
- Patterns and branching systems
- Symmetry in molecular cell interactions
- Staking and packing
- Internal (a)symmetries
- Exploiting symmetry in antiviral strategies
- Apoptosis and a(symmetry)
- Organelle shape
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