Measuring cell adhesion forces with the atomic force microscope at the molecular level

Cells Tissues Organs

Volumn 172, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 174-189

  Benoit, Martin ^a   Gaub, Hermann E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Cell adhesion; Force spectroscopy; Living cells; Single molecules

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CONTACT; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SURFACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY; STARVATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; CELL LINE; DICTYOSTELIUM; ELASTICITY; ERYTHROCYTES; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; LECTINS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS;

DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM;

EID: 0036916050     PISSN: 14226405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000066964     Document Type: Conference Paper

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