Intracellular elasticity and viscosity in the body, leading, and trailing regions of locomoting neutrophils

American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology

Volumn 277, Issue 3 46-3, 1999, Pages

  Yanai, Masaru ^a   Butler, James P ^a,b   Suzuki, Tomoko ^a,c   Kanda, Akio ^a   Kurachi, Masashi ^c   Tashiro, Hideo ^c   Sasaki, Hidetada ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomechanics; Cytoskeleton; Pseudopodia

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHALASIN D; NOCODAZOLE;

ARTICLE; CELL GRANULE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NEUTROPHIL CHEMOTAXIS; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; RIGIDITY; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 0032883441     PISSN: 03636143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.1999.277.3.c432     Document Type: Article

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