Drastic change of local stiffness distribution correlating to cell migration in living fibroblasts

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 173-179

  Nagayama, Masafumi ^a   Haga, Hisashi ^a   Kawabata, Kazushige ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actin filaments; Cell movement; Force modulation mode; NIH3T3; Scanning probe microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SURFACE TENSION; TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOELASTICITY;

3T3 CELLS; ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; ELASTICITY; FIBROBLASTS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, SCANNING PROBE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS FIBERS;

EID: 0035663846     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.10008     Document Type: Article

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