Mechanical Induction of Gene Expression in Connective Tissue Cells

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 98, Issue C, 2010, Pages 178-205

  Chan, Matthew W C ^a   Hinz, Boris ^a   McCulloch, Christopher A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELL; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNECTIVE TISSUE CELLS; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77956207376     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)98008-4     Document Type: Book

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