Collective cell traction force analysis on aligned smooth muscle cell sheet between three-dimensional microwalls

Interface Focus

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Zhang, Ying ^a   Ng, Soon Seng ^a   Wang, Yilei ^a   Feng, Huixing ^a   Chen, Wei Ning ^a   Chan Park, Mary B ^a   Li, Chuan ^b,c   Chan, Vincent ^a  

^a Nanyang Technological University   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Aligned smooth muscle cell sheet; Cell traction force microscopy; Mechanical stress; Micropatterned scaffold

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894328693     PISSN: 20428898     EISSN: 20428901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsfs.2013.0056     Document Type: Article

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