Cell mechanics. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Yu-Li Wang, Dennis E. Discher.
• Other Names: Wang, Yu-li; Discher, Dennis E (Dennis Edward)
• Contents: I. Basics Concept and Preparation of Culture Substrates for Cell Mechanical Studies; Basic Rheology for Biologists; Polyacrylamide Hydrogels for Cell Mechanics: Steps towards Optimization and Alternative Uses; Microscopic Methods for Measuring the Elasticity of Gel Substrates for Cell Culture: Microspheres, Microindenters, and Atomic Force Microscopy; Surface Patterning; Molecular Engineering of Cellular Environments: Cell Adhesion to Nano-Digital Surfaces; ; II. Subcellular Mechanical Properties and Activities; Probing Cellular Mechanical Responses to Stimuli Using Ballistic Intracellular Nanorheology; Multiple Particle Tracking and Two-Point Microrheology in Cells; Imaging Stress Propagation in the Cytoplasm of a Living Cell; Probing Intracellular Force Distributions by High-Resolution Live Cell Imaging and Inverse Dynamics; Analysis of Microtubule Curvature; Nuclear Mechanics and Methods; ; III. Cellular and Embryonic Mechanical Properties and Activities; ; The Use of Gelatin Substrates for Traction Force Microscopy in Rapidly Moving Cells; Microfabricated Silicone Elastomeric Post Arrays for Measuring Traction Forces of Adherent Cells; Cell Adhesion Strengthening: Measurement and Analysis; Studying the Mechanics of Cellular Processes by Atomic Force Microscopy; Using Force to Probe Single-Molecule Receptor-Cytoskeletal Anchoring beneath the Surface of a Living Cell; High Throughput Rheological Measurements with an Optical Stretcher; Measuring Mechanical Properties of Embryos and Embryonic Tissues; ; IV. Mechanical Stimuli to Cells; Tools to Study Cell Mechanics and Mechanotransduction; Magnetic Tweezers in Cell Biology; Optical Neuronal Guidance; Microtissue Elasticity: Measurements by Atomic Force Microscopy and Its Influence on Cell Differentiation; Demystifying the effects of a three-dimensional microenvironment in tissue morphogenesis.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Academic Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (632 pages)
• Subjects: 571.6; Cells -- Mechanical properties; Biomechanics; Cellular Structures; Mechanotransduction, Cellular
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780080548708; 0080548709
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