Numerical investigation of the active role of the actin cytoskeleton in the compression resistance of cells

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages 143-157

  Ronan, William ^a   Deshpande, Vikram S ^b   McMeeking, Robert M ^c   McGarry, J Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Active contractility; Cell compression; Constitutive formulation; Stress fibre

Indexed keywords

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ACTIVE CONTRACTILITY; AXISYMMETRIC; CELL CYTOPLASM; CELL DEFORMABILITY; CELL GEOMETRIES; CELL PHENOTYPE; CELL TYPES; CIRCUMFERENTIAL STRESS; COMPRESSION FORCE; COMPRESSION RESISTANCE; CONSTITUTIVE FORMULATION; CONTRACTILE CELLS; CYTOSKELETONS; IN-VITRO; MATERIAL PARAMETER; MECHANICAL LOADING; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PASSIVE MATERIALS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; ROUND CELLS; SPREAD CELLS; STRESS FIBRES;

CELLS; FIBERS; LOADING; PROTEINS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

CYTOLOGY;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; CELL COMPRESSION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRESS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; FIBER; PHENOTYPE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE STUDY;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL POLARITY; CELL SHAPE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; STRESS FIBERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84866667477     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.05.016     Document Type: Article

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