The Critical Importance of Spatial and Temporal Scales in Designing and Interpreting Immune Cell Migration Assays.
Cells
; 10(12)2021 12 07.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34943947
ABSTRACT
Intravital microscopy and other direct-imaging techniques have allowed for a characterisation of leukocyte migration that has revolutionised the field of immunology, resulting in an unprecedented understanding of the mechanisms of immune response and adaptive immunity. However, there is an assumption within the field that modern imaging techniques permit imaging parameters where the resulting cell track accurately captures a cell's motion. This notion is almost entirely untested, and the relationship between what could be observed at a given scale and the underlying cell behaviour is undefined. Insufficient spatial and temporal resolutions within migration assays can result in misrepresentation of important physiologic processes or cause subtle changes in critical cell behaviour to be missed. In this review, we contextualise how scale can affect the perceived migratory behaviour of cells, summarise the limited approaches to mitigate this effect, and establish the need for a widely implemented framework to account for scale and correct observations of cell motion. We then extend the concept of scale to new approaches that seek to bridge the current "black box" between single-cell behaviour and systemic response.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Cell Movement
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Molecular Imaging
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Cell Tracking
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Leukocytes
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Cells
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United kingdom