Micropatterning of single endothelial cell shape reveals a tight coupling between nuclear volume in G1 and proliferation

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 4984-4995

  Roca Cusachs, Pere ^a,b   Alcaraz, Jordi ^c   Sunyer, Raimon ^a   Samitier, Josep ^a,b   Farré, Ramon ^a,d   Navajas, Daniel ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE FOR BIOENGINEERING OF CATALONIA IBEC   (Spain)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CYCLE G1 PHASE; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; G1 PHASE; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 45849111041     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.116863     Document Type: Article

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