A simple indentation device for measuring micrometer-scale tissue stiffness

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Levental, I ^a,b   Levental, K R ^a,b   Klein, E A ^a   Assoian, R ^a   Miller, R T ^c,d   Wells, R G ^a   Janmey, P A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c LOUIS STOKES CLEVELAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; COMMERCIAL INSTRUMENTS; CRITICAL DETERMINANT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; IN-VIVO; INDENTATION DEVICES; INNER WALLS; ISOLATED MOUSE; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LENGTH SCALE; MAGNETIC BEADS; MAMMARY GLAND; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CELLS; MICROMETER-SCALE; ONCOGENIC TRANSFORMATION; OPTICALTRAPPING; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; RAT LIVERS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEM CELL DIFFERENTIATION; SUB-CELLULAR; SUBMILLIMETERS; TISSUE SAMPLES; TISSUE STIFFNESS;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; BIOMIMETIC MATERIALS; COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); HISTOLOGY; MICROMETERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; STEM CELLS; STIFFNESS;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HARDNESS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROMANIPULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSIOLOGY; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HARDNESS; HARDNESS TESTS; HUMANS; MICROMANIPULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77951545826     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/19/194120     Document Type: Article

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