From tissue mechanics to transcription factors

Differentiation

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 112-120

  Janmey, Paul A ^a   Wells, Rebecca G ^a   Assoian, Richard K ^a   McCulloch, Christopher A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mechanical stress; Mechanosensing; Mechanotransduction; Substrate stiffness

Indexed keywords

FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN MRTF A; PROTEIN TAZ; PROTEIN YAP; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL CYCLE GENE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROSIS; FORCE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IN VITRO STUDY; MECHANICS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; TISSUE MECHANICS;

MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOSENSING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; FIBROBLASTS; FOCAL ADHESIONS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84884975623     PISSN: 03014681     EISSN: 14320436     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.diff.2013.07.004     Document Type: Article

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