Micropost array for force mapping of vascular smooth muscle cells

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1583-1586

  Cheng, Qi ^a   Almasri, Mahmoud ^a   Sun, Zhe ^b   Meininger, Gerald A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3-DIMENSIONAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPES; CELL FORCES; CELL TRACTION FORCE; CELLULAR TRACTION; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS; FORCE MAPPING; HIGH ASPECT RATIO; HIGH DENSITY; HIGHER-DEGREE; MICROMACHINED ARRAYS; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE PDMS; SPRING CONSTANTS; TRACTION FORCES; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; YOUNG'S MODULUS;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; CELLS; CELLULAR ARRAYS; FORCE MEASUREMENT; MICROCHANNELS; MUSCLE; SENSORS; SILICONES; TRACTION (FRICTION);

ASPECT RATIO;

EID: 79951876347     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2010.5690288     Document Type: Conference Paper

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