The cytoplasm of living cells behaves as a poroelastic material

Nature Materials

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 253-261

  Moeendarbary, Emad ^a   Valon, Léo ^a,b   Fritzsche, Marco ^a   Harris, Andrew R ^a   Moulding, Dale A ^c   Thrasher, Adrian J ^c   Stride, Eleanor ^d   Mahadevan, L ^e   Charras, Guillaume T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIPHASIC MATERIALS; CELLULAR DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; INTERSTITIAL FLUIDS; INTRACELLULAR WATER; MICRO-INDENTATION TESTS; POROELASTIC MATERIALS; WATER REDISTRIBUTION;

CELLS; ELASTICITY; MACROMOLECULES; RHEOLOGY;

CYTOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; FLOW KINETICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POROSITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL SHAPE; CELL SIZE; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; ELASTICITY; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875449875     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat3517     Document Type: Article

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