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Cell jam

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Collective cell migration and jamming in the bronchial epithelium helps to understand the pathophysiology underlying asthma.

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Figure 1: Jamming transition in cell monolayers.

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  1. Melody A. Swartz is in the Institute for Molecular Engineering and the Ben May Department for Cancer Research, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA,

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