Stiffening hydrogels to probe short- and long-term cellular responses to dynamic mechanics

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Guvendiren, Murat ^a   Burdick, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADIPOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEL; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MOTION; CHEMISTRY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; INSTRUMENTATION; TIME;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL MOVEMENT; CELLS, CULTURED; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860280313     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1792     Document Type: Article

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