Rheological properties of the Eukaryotic cell cytoskeleton

Physics Reports

Volumn 449, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 29-53

  Pullarkat, Pramod A ^a   Fernández, Pablo A ^a   Ott, Albrecht ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell mechanics; Cytoskeleton; Rheology

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347332373     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2007.03.002     Document Type: Review

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