Dynamics of prestressed semiflexible polymer chains as a model of cell rheology

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 2006, Pages

  Rosenblatt, Noah ^a   Alencar, Adriano M ^b   Majumdar, Arnab ^a,c   Suki, Béla ^a   Stamenović, Dimitrije ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; FREE ENERGY; RHEOLOGY; SURFACE TENSION;

CELL RHEOLOGY; LIVING CELLS; SEMIFLEXIBLE POLYMER CHAINS; THERMALLY DRIVEN DYNAMICS;

POLYMERS;

ACTIN; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL FUNCTION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; CYTOSKELETON; FLOW KINETICS; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ACTINS; CELL PHYSIOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POLYMERS; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 33750051624     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.168101     Document Type: Article

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