Micropillar substrates: A tool for studying cell mechanobiology

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn 125, Issue , 2015, Pages 289-308

  Gupta, Mukund ^a   Kocgozlu, Leyla ^a   Sarangi, Bibhu Ranjan ^b   Margadant, Felix ^a   Ashraf, Mohammed ^a   Ladoux, Benoit ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUT JACQUES MONOD   (France)

Author keywords

Force measurement; Mechanotransduction; Micropillar substrates; Rigidity; Traction force microscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL ADHESION; CELL SURVIVAL; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENETIC PROCEDURES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CELL ADHESION; CELL SURVIVAL; FIBROBLASTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR;

EID: 84921865306     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.mcb.2014.10.009     Document Type: Article

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