{"id":7448,"date":"2019-05-22T15:56:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cell_locomotion\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:56:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:56:59","slug":"cell_locomotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cell_locomotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell locomotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ways in which cells move differ between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. &nbsp;For eukaryotes, most mechanisms seem to involve protein tubules or filaments sliding past one another and generating force. &nbsp;However, how such force is generated is not well understood, but adhesion molecules including integrins are involved.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adhesion_molecules\">Adhesion molecules<\/a>, <a href=\"axon_pathway_selection\">Axon pathway selection<\/a>, <a href=\"cell_migration\">Cell migration<\/a>, <a href=\"eukaryote_cell_-or_organism-\">Eukaryote cell (or organism)<\/a>, <a href=\"filopodia\">Filopodia<\/a>, <a href=\"flagella\">Flagella<\/a>, <a href=\"integrins\">Integrins<\/a>, <a href=\"lamillipodia\">Lamillipodia<\/a>, <a href=\"motility\">Motility<\/a>, <a href=\"myosin\">Myosin<\/a>, <a href=\"prokaryote_cell_-or_organism-\">Prokaryote cell (or organism)<\/a>, Proteins<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ways in which cells move differ between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. &nbsp;For eukaryotes, most mechanisms seem to involve protein tubules or filaments sliding past one another and generating force. &nbsp;However, how such force is generated is not well understood, but adhesion molecules including integrins are involved. See Adhesion molecules, Axon pathway selection, Cell migration, Eukaryote &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/cell_locomotion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cell locomotion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}