Nanotopography/Mechanical Induction of Stem-Cell Differentiation

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 98, Issue C, 2010, Pages 241-294

  Teo, Benjamin Kim Kiat ^a,b   Ankam, Soneela ^a   Chan, Lesley Y ^a,c,d   Yim, Evelyn K F ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d AGENCY FOR SCIENCE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; BOOK; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGY; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STEM CELL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SHAPE; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77956209117     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-679X(10)98011-4     Document Type: Book

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