Viscoelasticity of tau proteins leads to strain rate-dependent breaking of microtubules during axonal stretch injury: Predictions from a mathematical model

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1123-1133

  Ahmadzadeh, Hossein ^a   Smith, Douglas H ^b   Shenoy, Vivek B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TAU PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELASTICITY; KINETICS; MECHANICAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MICROTUBULE; NERVE FIBER; VISCOSITY;

AXONS; ELASTICITY; KINETICS; MICROTUBULES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TAU PROTEINS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84901737158     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.01.024     Document Type: Article

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