Measurement of Orientation and Distribution of Cellular Alignment and Cytoskeletal Organization

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 712-720

  Karlon, William J ^a   Hsu, Pin Pin ^a   Song, L I ^a   Chien, Shu ^a   McCulloch, Andrew D ^a   Omens, Jeffrey H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin filaments; Endothelial cells; Intensity gradients; Microtubules; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; AORTA; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL SIZE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; FLOW KINETICS; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANICAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; AORTA; CATTLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL SIZE; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; IMAGE CYTOMETRY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0033219924     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.226     Document Type: Article

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