Measuring the elastic properties of living cells with atomic force microscopy indentation

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 931, Issue , 2012, Pages 313-329

  MacKay, Joanna L ^a   Kumar, Sanjay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell mechanics; Elasticity; Force spectroscopy; Mechanobiology; Nanoindentation; Scanning probe microscope; Stiffness; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934435191     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-56-4_15     Document Type: Article

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