Nanomechanical measurement of astrocyte stiffness correlated with cytoskeletal maturation

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research - Part A

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 365-370

  Lee, Sang Myung ^a   Nguyen, Thi Huong ^b,d   Na, Kyounghwan ^b   Cho, Il Joo ^b   Woo, Dong Ho ^b   Oh, Jae Eung ^c   Lee, C Justin ^b   Yoon, Eui Sung ^b  

^a Kangwon National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

astrocyte; atomic force microscopy; cell stiffness; cytoskeletal structure; ex vivo culture

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY); STIFFNESS;

ASTROCYTE; CELL STIFFNESS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; CYTOSKELETAL STRUCTURES; EX-VIVO; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENTS; NANOMECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS; PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS;

PROTEINS;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTE CULTURE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BRAIN CANCER; CELL MATURATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EX VIVO STUDY; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; NEUROSCIENCE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; RIGIDITY; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; CYTOSKELETON; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; CYTOSKELETON; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84912522086     PISSN: 15493296     EISSN: 15524965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.35174     Document Type: Article

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