Dynamics of cell orientation

Nature Physics

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 655-659

  De, Rumi ^a   Zemel, Assaf ^a,b   Safran, Samuel A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

CELL ORIENTATION; CELLULAR ORIENTATION; FUNCTION OF FREQUENCY; MECHANOSENSITIVITY; PARALLEL ALIGNMENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; QUASI-STATIC STRESS; THEORETICAL MODELING;

STRESSES;

EID: 34548432555     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys680     Document Type: Article

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