Quantifying cell-generated mechanical forces within living embryonic tissues

Nature Methods

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 183-189

  Campàs, Otger ^a,b,c,e,f   Mammoto, Tadanori ^c   Hasso, Sean ^c   Sperling, Ralph A ^a,e,f   O'connell, Daniel ^d   Bischof, Ashley G ^b,c   Maas, Richard ^d   Weitz, David A ^a   Mahadevan, L ^a,b   Ingber, Donald E ^a,b,c,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

^f INSTITUT FÜR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN II; VEGETABLE OIL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BREAST EPITHELIUM; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYONAL TISSUE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FORCE TRANSDUCER; MECHANICAL STRESS; MESENCHYME CELL; MORPHOGENESIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TOOTH;

EID: 84895067766     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15487105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.2761     Document Type: Article

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