Substrate stress relaxation regulates cell spreading

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chaudhuri, Ovijit ^a,b,c   Gu, Luo ^a,b   Darnell, Max ^a,b   Klumpers, Darinka ^a,b,d   Bencherif, Sidi A ^a,b   Weaver, James C ^b   Huebsch, Nathaniel ^a,e   Mooney, David J ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e GLADSTONE INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGINIC ACID; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACID; HYDROGEL; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELASTICITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAUGE; MECHANORECEPTION; STRESS FIELD;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SPREADING; CELL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; NONHUMAN; U2OS CELL LINE; VISCOELASTICITY; YOUNG MODULUS; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CELL SHAPE; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; MECHANICAL STRESS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

3T3 CELLS; ALGINATES; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; CELL SHAPE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GLUCURONIC ACID; HEXURONIC ACIDS; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STRESS, MECHANICAL; VISCOELASTIC SUBSTANCES;

EID: 84923326621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7365     Document Type: Article

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