Effects of substrate stiffness on cell morphology, cytoskeletal structure, and adhesion

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-34

  Yeung, Tony ^a   Georges, Penelope C ^a   Flanagan, Lisa A ^b   Marg, Beatrice ^b   Ortiz, Miguelina ^a   Funaki, Makoto ^a   Zahir, Nastaran ^a   Ming, Wenyu ^a   Weaver, Valerie ^a   Janmey, Paul A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin cytoskeleton; Cell morphology; Cell matrix interaction; Fibroblasts; Integrin expression; Mechanosensing; Substrate stiffness

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; GLASS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL CONTACT; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SPREADING; CELL STRUCTURE; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; STRESS FIBER;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; AORTA; CATTLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLASTS; FIBRONECTINS; GLASS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HUMANS; INTEGRIN ALPHA5; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUTROPHILS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; STRESS FIBERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 19944428596     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20041     Document Type: Article

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