Redundancy and cooperativity in the mechanics of compositely crosslinked filamentous networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Das, Moumita ^a   Quint, D A ^b   Schwarz, J M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS LINKING; CYTOSKELETON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; REDUNDANCY ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TISSUE ENGINEERING; YOUNG MODULUS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHYSIOLOGY;

CYTOSKELETON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84860721653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035939     Document Type: Article

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