Cytoskeleton reorganization of spreading cells on micro-patterned islands: A functional model

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1920, 2010, Pages 2629-2652

  Loosli, Y ^a,b,c   Luginbuehl, R ^c   Snedeker, J G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c RMS Foundation   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cellular modelling; Focal adhesions; Mechanotransduction; Spreading; Stress fibres

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BIOMATERIALS; BIOPHYSICS; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; MICROMACHINING; NUMERICAL METHODS; REINFORCEMENT;

BASIC MECHANISM; CELL BIOLOGY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL SPREADING; CELL-MATRIX ADHESION; CELLULAR INTERACTION; CELLULAR RESPONSE; CYTOSKELETONS; DISEASED TISSUES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FILLING GAPS; FOCAL ADHESIONS; FUNCTIONAL MODEL; FUNCTIONALIZED SUBSTRATES; IN-SILICO; IN-VITRO; MECHANISTIC MODELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROPATTERNED; NUMERICAL MODELS; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; SINGLE-CELL MODELS; STRESS FIBRES; THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION; TISSUE HOMEOSTASIS;

EXPERIMENTS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL MOTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL MOVEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953497135     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0069     Document Type: Article

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