A stretching device for high-resolution live-cell imaging

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1728-1740

  Huang, Lawrence ^a   Mathieu, Pattie S ^a   Helmke, Brian P ^a,b  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endothelial cell; Live cell microscopy; Mechanotransduction; Substrate stretch device

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RESPONSE; CONSTANT MAGNITUDE; CULTURED CELL; CYCLIC STRETCH; DISPLACEMENT VECTORS; ELASTIC MEMBRANES; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FLUORESCENT MICROSPHERES; FOCAL ADHESIONS; HIGH RESOLUTION; INDENTERS; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; LIVE-CELL IMAGING; LIVING CELL; MECHANICAL COUPLING; MECHANICAL STRAIN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PAXILLIN; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL PROFILES; STRAIN ANALYSIS; STRAIN TENSOR; STRUCTURAL REMODELING; SUBSTRATE STRAIN; UNI-AXIAL STRETCH; VIMENTIN;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CYTOLOGY; DYNAMICS; FLUORESCENCE; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS; SUBSTRATES;

ENDOTHELIAL CELLS;

ACTIN; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; PAXILLIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL; CELL CULTURE; CELL STRUCTURE; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESION; METABOLISM; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELLS; CELLS, CULTURED; CELLULAR STRUCTURES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FOCAL ADHESIONS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; PAXILLIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VIMENTIN;

EID: 77952010945     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: 15739686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10439-010-9968-7     Document Type: Article

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