Substrate stiffness-modulated registry phase correlations in cardiomyocytes map structural order to coherent beating

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Dasbiswas, K ^a   Majkut, S ^b   Discher, D E ^b   Safran, Samuel A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; ELASTICITY; MUSCLE; STIFFNESS; SUBSTRATE;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MUSCLE FIBRIL; NOISE; SARCOMERE; SUBSTRATE STIFFNESS; ANIMAL; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; MYOFIBRILS;

EID: 84923086482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7085     Document Type: Article

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