Local force and geometry sensing regulate cell functions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 265-275

  Vogel, Viola ^a   Sheetz, Michael ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DEATH; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL LEVEL; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CELL SHAPE; ION CHANNELS; MECHANORECEPTORS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 33645773666     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1890     Document Type: Review

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