The hard life of soft cells

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 66, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 597-605

  Janmey, Paul A ^a   Winer, Jessamine P ^b   Murray, Maria E ^b   Wen, Qi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell mechanics; Mechanotransduction; Substrate stiffness

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ;

CELL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FLOW KINETICS; FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOVEMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 67849111396     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: 10970169     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20382     Document Type: Review

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