The tension mounts: Mechanics meets morphogenesis and malignancy

Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 325-342

  Paszek, Matthew J ^a,b   Weaver, Valerie M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compliance; Integrin; Malignant transformation; Mammary epithelial cell; Mechanotransduction; Tensional homeostasis; Traction force microscopy

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARCINOGENESIS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURVIVAL; EPITHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FORCE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; LACTATION; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MORPHOGENESIS; MORPHOLOGY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TENSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MORPHOGENESIS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22944454223     PISSN: 10833021     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10911-004-1404-x     Document Type: Review

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