Capturing the elasticity and morphology of live fibroblast cell cultures during degradation with atomic force microscopy

Journal of Microscopy

Volumn 249, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 62-68

  Aifantis, K E ^a   Shrivastava, S ^b   Pelidou, S H ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Elasticity; Fibroblasts

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL CULTURE; ELASTICITY;

ATOMIC-FORCE-MICROSCOPY; CELL ELASTICITY; FIBROBLAST CELLS; FORCE-DISTANCE-CURVES; IN-VITRO; LIQUID ENVIRONMENT; MECHANICAL; TIME ELAPSE; TIME FRAME; TOPOGRAPHY IMAGES;

FIBROBLASTS;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL STRUCTURE; ELASTICITY; FIBROBLAST; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; IN VITRO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 84870909025     PISSN: 00222720     EISSN: 13652818     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2818.2012.03681.x     Document Type: Article

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