Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "contractility"
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Design Considerations for Engineered Myocardium
(2014-06-06)The fabrication of biomimetic heart muscle suitable for pharmaceutical compound evaluation and disease modeling is hindered by limitations in our understanding of how to guide and assess the maturity of engineered myocardium ... -
A multi-modular tensegrity model of an actin stress fiber
(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 ...