On-chip assessment of human primary cardiac fibroblasts proliferative responses to uniaxial cyclic mechanical strain

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 113, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 859-869

  Ugolini, Giovanni Stefano ^a   Rasponi, Marco ^a   Pavesi, Andrea ^b   Santoro, Rosaria ^c   Kamm, Roger ^d   Fiore, Gianfranco Beniamino ^a   Pesce, Maurizio ^c   Soncini, Monica ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^c CENTRO CARDIOLOGICO MONZINO   (Italy)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Cyclic strain; Human cardiac fibroblasts; Mechanobiology; Mechanotransduction; Microdevice

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; FIBROBLASTS; HEART; MACHINERY;

CARDIAC FIBROBLASTS; CYCLIC STRAIN; MECHANO-BIOLOGY; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; MICRO-DEVICE;

STRAIN;

HISTONE H3; KI 67 ANTIGEN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR YAP; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL DENSITY; CELL FUNCTION; CELL GROWTH; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; DEVICES; FIBROBLAST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

BIOMARKERS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MECHANOTRANSDUCTION, CELLULAR; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84959457881     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.25847     Document Type: Article

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