Cyclic stretch-induced stress fiber dynamics - Dependence on strain rate, Rho-kinase and MLCK

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 401, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 344-349

  Lee, Chin Fu ^a   Haase, Candice ^a   Deguchi, Shinji ^b   Kaunas, Roland ^a  

^a Texas A and M University   (United States)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytoskeletal dynamics; Live cell microscopy; Mechanical stretch; Mechanobiology

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; ACTIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN KINASE; RHO KINASE; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; FOCAL ADHESION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MECHANICAL STRESS; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS FIBER; STRETCHING;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; AZEPINES; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; MYOSIN-LIGHT-CHAIN KINASE; NAPHTHALENES; PYRIDINES; RHO-ASSOCIATED KINASES; STRESS FIBERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 77958153094     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2010.09.046     Document Type: Article

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