Micropipette aspiration of substrate-attached cells to estimate cell stiffness

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 67, 2012, Pages

  Oh, Myung Jin ^a   Kuhr, Frank ^a   Byfield, Fitzroy ^b   Levitan, Irena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Biomechanics; Biomedical engineering; Biophysics; Cell membrane; Cell stiffness; Cellular biology; Cytoskeleton; Issue 67; Medicine; Microaspiration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868274466     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3886     Document Type: Article

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