Mechanical response of semiflexible networks to localized perturbations

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Head, D A ^a,b   Levine, A J ^c,d   MacKintosh, F C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DEFORMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC RESPONSE; FORCE DIPOLES; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; SEMIFLEXIBLE NETWORKS;

POLYMERS;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 33244475291     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.061914     Document Type: Article

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