Mechanobiology and the microcirculation: Cellular, nuclear and fluid mechanics

Microcirculation

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 179-191

  Dahl, Kris Noel ^a,b   Kalinowski, Agnieszka ^a   Pekkan, Kkerem ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biomedical Engineering ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computational fluid dynamics; Hutchinson Gilford progeria syndrome; Lamins; Nuclear mechanics; Rheology

Indexed keywords

LAMIN A;

AGING; APOPTOSIS; BIOENGINEERING; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL GROWTH; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRESS; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENERAL ASPECTS OF DISEASE; GLYCOCALYX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROCIRCULATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGERIA; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CELL NUCLEUS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; LAMIN TYPE A; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROCIRCULATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUTATION; PROGERIA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 77950273954     PISSN: 10739688     EISSN: 15498719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1549-8719.2009.00016.x     Document Type: Review

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