Single-cell force spectroscopy, an emerging tool to quantify cell adhesion to biomaterials

Tissue Engineering - Part B: Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-55

  Taubenberger, Anna V ^a,b   Hutmacher, Dietmar W ^b,c   Muller, Daniel J ^d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE INTERACTION; CELL-ADHESION ASSAYS; CELL-BIOMATERIAL INTERACTIONS; CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT; FORCE SPECTROSCOPY; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITION; REGENERATIVE MEDICINE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT; CELL ADHESION; CELLS; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL);

SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; LECTIN; MYOSIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; STREPTAVIDIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CALIBRATION; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION ASSAY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURFACE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOCAL ADHESION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMMOBILIZATION; IMPLANT; LIGAND BINDING; MEDLINE; MYTILUS EDULIS; NONHUMAN; OSTEOBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TISSUE ENGINEERING;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL MEMBRANE; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84893553151     PISSN: 19373368     EISSN: 19373376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.teb.2013.0125     Document Type: Article

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