Appreciating force and shape-the rise of mechanotransduction in cell biology

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 825-833

  Iskratsch, Thomas ^a   Wolfenson, Haguy ^a   Sheetz, Michael P ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGING; CROSS LINKING; CYTOLOGY; DNA SEQUENCE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TISSUE REGENERATION; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTORY; PHYSIOLOGY;

VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CELL BIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR;

EID: 84922322060     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3903     Document Type: Review

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