Cell Visco-Elasticity Measured with AFM and Optical Trapping at Sub-Micrometer Deformations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Nawaz, Schanila ^a,b,c   Sánchez, Paula ^a,b   Bodensiek, Kai ^a,b   Li, Sai ^a,b   Simons, Mikael ^a,c   Schaap, Iwan A T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FIBROBLAST; HYSTERESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; VISCOSITY; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FIBROBLASTS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NIH 3T3 CELLS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84866547879     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045297     Document Type: Article

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