Cytoskeletal dynamics in response to tensile loading of mammalian axons

Cytoskeleton

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 650-665

  Chetta, Joshua ^a   Kye, Cecilia ^a   Shah, Sameer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Axon; Biomechanics; Microtubules and actin; Neuroscience; Peripheral nervous system

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; LOADING TEST; MAMMAL; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TENSILE STRENGTH;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; GANGLIA, SPINAL; MICROTUBULES; MITOCHONDRIA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSORY RECEPTOR CELLS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TENSILE STRENGTH;

MAMMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 78650320543     PISSN: 19493584     EISSN: 19493592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.20478     Document Type: Article

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