Band-like stress fiber propagation in a continuum and implications for myosin contractile stresses

Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-27

  Chandran, Preethi L ^a   Wolf, Christopher B ^a   Mofrad, Mohammad R K ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Actomyosin contractility; Coarse grained cytoskeletal modeling; Cytoskeleton; Lateral contractile forces; Stress fibers; Stress transmission; Zipper like actin myosin interaction

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ARTICLE; CYTOSKELETON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS FIBER;

EID: 67349272866     PISSN: 18655025     EISSN: 18655033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12195-009-0044-z     Document Type: Article

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