Inferring cellular forces from image stacks

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1720, 2017, Pages

  Veldhuis, Jim H ^a   Ehsandar, Ahmad ^a   Maître, Jean Léon ^b   Hiiragi, Takashi ^c   Cox, Simon ^d   Brodland, G Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell mechanics; CellFIT; CellFIT 3D; Force inference; Interfacial tensions; Video force microscopy (VFM)

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CANCER; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; DISEASE; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FORCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY; RODENT; TENSION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

MURINAE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; DEVICES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOGENESIS; PROCEDURES;

ANIMALS; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORPHOGENESIS;

EID: 85016278082     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0261     Document Type: Article

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