High-Resolution Traction Force Microscopy

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 367-394

  Plotnikov, Sergey V ^a   Sabass, Benedikt ^b   Schwarz, Ulrich S ^b   Waterman, Clare M ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Elastic modulus; Focal adhesions; Fourier transform traction cytometry; High resolution traction force microscopy; Mechanotransduction; Polyacrylamide gel; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; CELL LINE; FIDUCIAL MARKER; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PROCEDURES; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; YOUNG MODULUS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL LINE; ELASTIC MODULUS; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84902987002     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-420138-5.00020-3     Document Type: Chapter

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