Cell cytoskeleton and tensegrity

Biorheology

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 63-67

  Volokh, K Yu ^a   Vilnay, O ^a   Belsky, M ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; CALCULATION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOARCHITECTURE; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RIGIDITY; TENSION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RHEOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0036282862     PISSN: 0006355X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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