Independent regulation of tumor cell migration by matrix stiffness and confinement

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10334-10339

  Pathak, Amit ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^a  

^a University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

Author keywords

Cytoskeleton; Glioblastoma; Mechanobiology; Microchannels; Polyacrylamide

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN II;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL WALL; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; TUMOR CELL;

CELL MOVEMENT; CYTOSKELETON; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; MYOSIN TYPE II; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 84862998696     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118073109     Document Type: Article

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