Modeling Active Mechanosensing in CellMatrix Interactions

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-32

  Chen, Bin ^a   Ji, Baohua ^b   Gao, Huajian ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Brown University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell reorientation; Cell traction; Focal adhesion; Multiscale modeling; Receptorligand interaction; Stress fiber

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LEVEL; CELL MIGRATION; CELL SHAPE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESION; FORCE; MECHANICS; MECHANOSENSING; MOLECULAR MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STRESS FIBER; ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMMUNICATION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESIONS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR;

EID: 84937402199     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: 19361238     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-051013-023102     Document Type: Article

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