Balancing forces: Architectural control of mechanotransduction

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 308-319

  Dufort, Christopher C ^a   Paszek, Matthew J ^a   Weaver, Valerie M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RELAPSE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL FUNCTION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESION; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR JUNCTIONS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 79955441991     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3112     Document Type: Review

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