Mechanical regulation of cell function with geometrically modulated elastomeric substrates

Nature Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 733-736

  Fu, Jianping ^a,b   Wang, Yang Kao ^a,c   Yang, Michael T ^a   Desai, Ravi A ^a   Yu, Xiang ^a   Liu, Zhijun ^a   Chen, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER; BAYSILON; DIMETICONE; ELASTOMERIC; POLYMER; SILICON;

ADIPOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL ADHESION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL FATE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FOCAL ADHESION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANICS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL CULTURE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL ADHESION; CELLS, CULTURED; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SILICON; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 77956318381     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1487     Document Type: Article

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