The yin-yang of rigidity sensing: How forces and mechanical properties regulate the cellular response to materials

Annual Review of Materials Research

Volumn 43, Issue , 2013, Pages 589-618

  Schoen, Ingmar ^a   Pruitt, Beth L ^a,b   Vogel, Viola ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell adhesion; Mechanobiology; Mechanotransduction; Protein unfolding; Rigidity; Traction forces

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT LENGTH SCALE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROPERTY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; MECHANO-BIOLOGY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PHYSICAL CONNECTIONS; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; TRACTION FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; PROTEINS;

RIGIDITY;

EID: 84880217477     PISSN: 15317331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-matsci-062910-100407     Document Type: Review

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