Atomic force microscopy-based microrheology reveals significant differences in the viscoelastic response between malign and benign cell lines

Open Biology

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2014, Pages

  Rother, Jan ^a   Nöding, Helen ^a   Mey, Ingo ^b   Janshoff, Andreas ^a  

^a Institute for Physical Chemistry   (Germany)

^b Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Cancer; Microrheology; Viscoelasticity

Indexed keywords

3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BREAST TUMOR; CELL LINE; DOG; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MCF 7 CELL LINE; METASTASIS; MOUSE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CELL LINE; DOGS; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MCF-7 CELLS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NIH 3T3 CELLS;

EID: 84902371063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20462441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.140046     Document Type: Article

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