Universal behavior of the osmotically compressed cell and its analogy to the colloidal glass transition

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

Volumn 106, Issue 26, 2009, Pages 10632-10637

  Zhou, E H ^a   Trepat, X ^a,e   Park, C Y ^a   Lenormand, G ^a   Oliver, M N ^a   Mijailovich, S M ^a   Hardin, C ^b   Weitz, D A ^c   Butler, J P ^a,d   Fredberg, J J ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Compression; Cytoplasm; Cytoskeleton; Mechanotransduction; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MOTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL STRAIN; COLLOID; COMPRESSION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; GLASS TRANSITION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPEROSMOTIC STRESS; LUNG FIBROBLAST; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; VISCOSITY;

ACTINS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; CELL LINE; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SIZE; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLOIDS; CYTOCHALASIN D; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; EYEGLASSES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; HYPERTONIC SOLUTIONS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SHEEP; STRESS, MECHANICAL; THIAZOLIDINES;

EID: 67649774582     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0901462106     Document Type: Article

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