Micromechanical properties of keratin intermediate filament networks

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 889-894

  Sivaramakrishnan, Sivaraj ^a   DeGiulio, James V ^b   Lorand, Laszlo ^b   Goldman, Robert D ^b   Ridge, Karen M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intermediate filaments; Lung alveolar epithelial cells; Microrheology; Shear stress

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; BIOPOLYMER;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CYTOSKELETON; FLOW KINETICS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; LUNG ALVEOLUS EPITHELIUM; MALE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROFILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SHEAR STRESS; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; EPITHELIUM CELL; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BIOPOLYMERS; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITHELIAL CELLS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; KERATINS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 38949216806     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710728105     Document Type: Article

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