Effect of adhesion geometry and rigidity on cellular force distributions

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Bischofs, Ilka B ^a,b   Schmidt, Sebastian S ^a,c   Schwarz, Ulrich S ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c HAHN MEITNER INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESION FORCES; CELL SHAPES; CELLULAR FORCE; CLOSED CONTOURS; DIFFERENT GEOMETRY; MECHANICAL MODEL; TISSUE CELLS;

CELL MEMBRANES; GEOMETRY; RIGIDITY;

ADHESION;

EID: 68749087424     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.048101     Document Type: Article

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