Measuring cell-cell tugging forces using bowtie-patterned mPADs (microarray post detectors)

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 1066, Issue , 2013, Pages 157-168

  Cohen, Daniel M ^a   Yang, Mike T ^a   Chen, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell cell junctions; Cell cell tugging force; Micropatterning; mPADs; Traction force

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; REAGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL TUGGING FORCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FORCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROARRAY POST DETECTOR; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ADHERENS JUNCTIONS; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL LINE; CELL MOVEMENT; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESIONS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; SILICON; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84934438613     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-604-7_14     Document Type: Article

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