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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 24.
Published in final edited form as: Integr Biol (Camb). 2013 Sep 16;5(11):1374–1384. doi: 10.1039/c3ib40128f

Fig. 7.

Fig. 7

Illustration of the serial effect during cancer invasion. When a cell is in a more relaxed state and invades (non-proteolytically) across a constriction ring in the ECM, the cell is deformed and transiently enters a “serial mode” that exhibits a higher power-law scaling exponent in its strain dynamics, making the subsequent invasion events easier in accordance to the serial factor.