Living microlens arrays

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 65, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 762-767

  Zimberlin, Jessica A ^a   Wadsworth, Patricia ^a   Crosby, Alfred J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell sheets; Cell cell junctions; Epithelial cells; Fibroblasts; Traction forces

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE; SILOXANE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL STRESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITHELIUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; FILM; GEOMETRY; LENS; MICROLENS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL SURVIVAL; EPITHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MICE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SWINE; TISSUE ARRAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 50649086178     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20302     Document Type: Article

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