Silencing of CD44 in Glioma Leads to Changes in Cytoskeletal Protein Expression and Cellular Biomechanical Deformation Properties as Measured by AFM Nanoindentation

BioNanoScience

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 54-64

  Maherally, Zaynah ^a   Smith, James R ^a   Ghoneim, Manar K ^a   Dickson, Luke ^a   An, Qian ^a   Fillmore, Helen L ^a   Pilkington, Geoffrey J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy (AFM); Cell stiffness; Cytoskeleton; Glioma; Migration

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL CULTURE; CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DEFORMATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME INHIBITION; HYALURONIC ACID; NANOINDENTATION; PROTEINS; STIFFNESS; TISSUE; TUMORS;

CELL STIFFNESS; CYTOSKELETONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX MOLECULES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEINS; GLIOMA; MIGRATION; SMALL INTERFERING RNA (SIRNA); TRANSMEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS;

CELL SIGNALING;

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HERMES ANTIGEN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; VIMENTIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOMECHANICS; CELL MIGRATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELASTICITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GLIOBLASTOMA CELL LINE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROTUBULE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RIGIDITY; WESTERN BLOTTING; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 84959566184     PISSN: 21911630     EISSN: 21911649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12668-015-0189-2     Document Type: Article

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