Mechanical force affects expression of an in vitro metastasis-like phenotype in HCT-8 cells

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2460-2469

  Tang, Xin ^a   Kuhlenschmidt, Theresa B ^b   Zhou, Jiaxi ^e   Bell, Philip ^d   Wang, Fei ^e   Kuhlenschmidt, Mark S ^b   Saif, Taher A ^c  

^a Center for Public Health Security   (United States)

^b Department of Chemistry   (United States)

^c Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory   (United States)

^d School of Molecular and Cell Biology   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 78049345305     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2010.08.034     Document Type: Article

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