Combining AFM and acoustic probes to reveal changes in the elastic stiffness tensor of living cells

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 107, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1502-1512

  Nijenhuis, Nadja ^a,b   Zhao, Xuegen ^a   Carisey, Alex ^b   Ballestrem, Christoph ^b   Derby, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIN;

3T3 CELL LINE; ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SHEAR STRENGTH; ULTRASTRUCTURE; YOUNG MODULUS;

ACOUSTICS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL SURVIVAL; CELLS; ELASTIC MODULUS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; SHEAR STRENGTH;

EID: 84908163259     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: 15420086     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.07.073     Document Type: Article

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