Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "cell mechanics"

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    • Cellular Hydraulics Suggests a Poroelastic Cytoplasm Rheology 

      Moeendarbary, E.; Valon, L.; Fritzsche, M.; Harris, A. R.; Moulding, D. A.; Thrasher, A. J.; Stride, E.; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan; Charras, G. T. (Nature Publishing Group, 2013-01-07)
      The cytoplasm represents the largest part of the cell by volume and hence its rheology sets the rate at which cellular shape change can occur. Recent experimental evidence suggests that cytoplasmic rheology can be described ...

    • A multi-modular tensegrity model of an actin stress fiber 

      Luo, Yaozhi; Xu, Xiang; Lele, Tanmay; Kumar, Sanjay; Ingber, Donald Elliot (Elsevier, 2008)
      Stress fibers are contractile bundles in the cytoskeleton that stabilize cell structure by exerting traction forces on the extracellular matrix. Individual stress fibers are molecular bundles composed of parallel actin ...