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Humana Press, Methods in Molecular Biology, p. 343-357, 2013

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-538-5_21

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High-Resolution Live-Cell Imaging and Time-Lapse Microscopy of Invadopodium Dynamics and Tracking Analysis

Book chapter published in 2013 by Ved P. Sharma, David Entenberg ORCID, John Condeelis
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Abstract

Invadopodia are specialized structures of cancer cells which aid in cancer cell invasion and metastasis. Therefore, studying the early steps of invadopodium assembly and its life cycle at the subcellular level by using high spatiotemporal resolution imaging provides an opportunity for understanding the signaling mechanisms involved in this very important process. In this chapter, we describe the design of a custom-built high-resolution fluorescence microscope which makes this challenging imaging possible. We also describe an ImageJ plugin that we have developed for tracking of invadopodia and lifetime analysis.