Mechanical regulation of collective cell behavior via microtopographic substrates

2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2786-2789

  Higa, Adrienne T ^a   Sochol, Ryan D ^a   Iwai, Kosuke ^a   Li, Song ^b   Lin, Liwei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective Cells; Micropillars; Microposts; Microtopography; Stencils

Indexed keywords

COLLECTIVE CELLS; MICRO TOPOGRAPHY; MICROPILLARS; MICROPOSTS; STENCILS;

ACTUATORS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; MICROSYSTEMS; SOLID-STATE SENSORS; STIFFNESS;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 80052110044     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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