Cell-mediated fibre recruitment drives extracellular matrix mechanosensing in engineered fibrillar microenvironments

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1262-1268

  Baker, Brendon M ^a,b   Trappmann, Britta ^a,b   Wang, William Y ^a   Sakar, Mahmut S ^c   Kim, Iris L ^d   Shenoy, Vivek B ^d   Burdick, Jason A ^d   Chen, Christopher S ^a,b  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL MEMBRANES; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FIBERS; HYDROGELS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STEM CELLS; STIFFNESS; TISSUE;

CELL MATRIX INTERACTIONS; COLLAGEN MATRICES; EXTRACELLULAR MATRICES; FIBROUS MATERIAL; HYDROGEL SURFACES; MATERIAL STIFFNESS; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MICROENVIRONMENTS;

CELL SIGNALING;

LIGAND;

CYTOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS;

EID: 84947737226     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4444     Document Type: Article

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