Mechanical phenotype of cancer cells: Cell softening and loss of stiffness sensing

Oncotarget

Volumn 6, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 20946-20958

  Lin, Hsi Hui ^a   Lin, Hsiu Kuan ^a   Lin, I Hsuan ^a   Chiou, Yu Wei ^a   Chen, Horn Wei ^a   Liu, Ching Yi ^a   Harn, Hans I Chen ^a   Chiu, Wen Tai ^a   Wang, Yang Kao ^a   Shen, Meng Ru ^a   Tang, Ming Jer ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Caveolin 1; Cell stiffness; Matrix stiffness; Mechanical phenotype; Stiffness sensing

Indexed keywords

CAVEOLIN 1; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; ACTIN; CAV1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; COLLAGEN; ENZYME INHIBITOR; RAS PROTEIN; RHOA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ACTIN CAPPING; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER CELL LINE; BREAST CANCER CELL LINE; CANCER CELL; CELL ELASTICITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIFFNESS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; CERVICAL CANCER CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; PANCREATIC CANCER CELL LINE; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; TRANSFORMED CELL; 3T3 CELL LINE; ANIMAL; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CHEMISTRY; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; DOG; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MDCK CELL LINE; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; ONCOGENE RAS; PATHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CAVEOLIN 1; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; COLLAGEN; DOGS; ELASTICITY; ENZYME INHIBITORS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MADIN DARBY CANINE KIDNEY CELLS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; NEOPLASMS; NIH 3T3 CELLS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; RAS PROTEINS; RHOA GTP-BINDING PROTEIN; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84940751411     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.4173     Document Type: Article

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