Self-organized patterns of actin filaments in cell-sized confinement

Soft Matter

Volumn 7, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 10631-10641

  Soares E Silva, Marina ^a   Alvarado, José ^a   Nguyen, Jeanette ^a   Georgoulia, Nefeli ^a   Mulder, Bela M ^a   Koenderink, Gijsje H ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; BIOCHEMICAL REGULATION; BUNDLE-LIKE STRUCTURE; CELL BOUNDARY; COMBINED EFFECT; CROSS-LINKERS; DEPLETION ATTRACTION; FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; IN-PLANE; LENGTH DISTRIBUTIONS; LIQUID-CRYSTALLINE; LONG AXIS; MICRO-CHAMBERS; PACKING CONSTRAINTS; PHYSICAL EFFECTS; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; POLYDISPERSES; SPATIAL CONFINEMENT; STERIC INTERACTIONS; THRESHOLD CONCENTRATIONS;

ADHESION; ALIGNMENT; CELLS; POLYDISPERSITY; TISSUE;

PROTEINS;

EID: 84255190188     PISSN: 1744683X     EISSN: 17446848     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/c1sm06060k     Document Type: Article

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