Tools to Study Cell Mechanics and Mechanotransduction

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 83, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Lele, Tanmay P ^a   Sero, Julia E ^a   Matthews, Benjamin D ^a,b   Kumar, Sanjay ^a   Xia, Shannon ^a   Montoya Zavala, Martin ^a   Polte, Thomas ^a   Overby, Darryl ^a   Wang, Ning ^c   Ingber, Donald E ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CATTLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATTLE; CELL LINEAGE; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CYTOSKELETON; ELECTROMAGNETICS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR;

EID: 34347221588     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(07)83019-6     Document Type: Review

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