Browsing SPH Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Cell Mechanics"

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    • Cell Elasticity Determines Macrophage Function 

      Patel, Naimish R.; Bole, Medhavi; Chen, Cheng; Hardin, Charles Corey; Kho, Alvin Thong-Juak; Mih, Justin; Deng, Linhong; Butler, James Preston; Tschumperlin, Daniel J.; Fredberg, Jeffrey J.; Krishnan, Ramaswamy; Koziel, Henryk (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Macrophages serve to maintain organ homeostasis in response to challenges from injury, inflammation, malignancy, particulate exposure, or infection. Until now, receptor ligation has been understood as being the central ...

    • Monolayer Stress Microscopy: Limitations, Artifacts, and Accuracy of Recovered Intercellular Stresses 

      Tambe, Dhananjay T; Croutelle, Ugo; Trepat, Xavier; Park, Chan Young Young; Kim, Jae Hun; Millet, Emil J.; Butler, James Preston; Fredberg, Jeffrey J. (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      In wound healing, tissue growth, and certain cancers, the epithelial or the endothelial monolayer sheet expands. Within the expanding monolayer sheet, migration of the individual cell is strongly guided by physical forces ...