Contribution of actin filaments to the global compressive properties of fibroblasts

Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages 192-198

  Ujihara, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakamura, Masanori ^b   Miyazaki, Hiroshi ^c   Wada, Shigeo ^c  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN FILAMENT; CELL STIFFNESS; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES; COMPRESSIVE TESTS; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; CYTOCHALASIN D; FLOATING CELLS; HOOKE'S LAW; INITIAL STIFFNESS; INTACT CELLS; LOAD-DEFORMATION CURVES; PATELLAR TENDON; QUASI-STATIC CONDITIONS;

CELL CULTURE; FIBROBLASTS; STIFFNESS;

PROTEINS;

CYTOCHALASIN D;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ELONGATION; COMPRESSION PLATE; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; DEPOLYMERIZATION; FIBROBLAST; JAPANESE; NONHUMAN; PATELLA TENDON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RIGIDITY; TENSION;

ACTIN CYTOSKELETON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; FIBROBLASTS; RABBITS; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84866715691     PISSN: 17516161     EISSN: 18780180     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2012.05.006     Document Type: Article

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