Three-Dimensional Quantification of Cellular Traction Forces and Mechanosensing of Thin Substrata by Fourier Traction Force Microscopy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  del Álamo, Juan C ^a,b   Meili, Ruedi ^a,c   Álvarez González, Begoña ^a   Alonso Latorre, Baldomero ^a   Bastounis, Effie ^a,c   Firtel, Richard ^c   Lasheras, Juan C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL SIZE; CELL STRESS; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CELLULAR TRACTION FORCE; ERROR; MECHANOSENSING; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRACTION FORCE MICROSCOPY;

DICTYOSTELIUM; MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84883441836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0069850     Document Type: Article

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