Stiffening hydrogels for investigating the dynamics of hepatic stellate cell mechanotransduction during myofibroblast activation

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Caliari, Steven R ^a   Perepelyuk, Maryna ^b   Cosgrove, Brian D ^a   Tsai, Shannon J ^b   Lee, Gi Yun ^a   Mauck, Robert L ^a,b   Wells, Rebecca G ^b   Burdick, Jason A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; HYALURONIC ACID; METHACRYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; YAP PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CELL SHAPE; CHEMISTRY; HEPATIC STELLATE CELL; HYDROGEL; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; METABOLISM; MYOFIBROBLAST; NUCLEOCYTOPLASMIC TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT, CELL NUCLEUS; ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; CELL SHAPE; CELLS, CULTURED; HEPATIC STELLATE CELLS; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROGELS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; METHACRYLATES; MYOFIBROBLASTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84959420962     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep21387     Document Type: Article

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