Generating suspended cell monolayers for mechanobiological studies

Nature Protocols

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2516-2530

  Harris, Andrew R ^a   Bellis, Julien ^a,b   Khalilgharibi, Nargess ^a   Wyatt, Tom ^a   Baum, Buzz ^a   Kabla, Alexandre J ^c   Charras, Guillaume T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; COLLAGENASE; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CAPILLARY; CELL CULTURE; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CELL MONOLAYER; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TYPE; MICROMANIPULATOR; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE; COLLAGEN; DOGS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TISSUE SCAFFOLDS;

EID: 84888332755     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2013.151     Document Type: Article

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