Mechanobiology of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Wagoner Johnson A.; Harley Brendan A.
Published: Springer Science+Business Media,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2011.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: xiii, 319 p.: ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781441980823 (hc.)
1441980822
Index Number: Q249
CLC: Q249
Call Number: Q249/M486
Contents: "This peer-reviewed book is one result of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) 45th Annual Technical Meeting, held October 12-15, 2008 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"--P. v.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Responses of cells to adhesion-mediated signals : a universal mechanism / Andrew D. Rape, Wei-Hui Guo, and Yu-Li Wang -- Substrate elasticity as a probe to measure mechanosensing at cell-cell and cell-matrix junctions / Jessamine P. Winer ... [et al.] -- A role for integrin-ECM bonds as mechanotransducers that modulate adult stem cell fate / Nathaniel Huebsch and David J. Mooney -- Cell-generated forces in tissue assembly, function, and disease / John Huynh, Joseph P. Califano, and Cynthia A. Reinhart-King -- Cell-cell interactions and the mechanics of cells and tissues observed in bioartificial tissue constructs / Guy M. Genin ... [et al.] -- Specific and non-specific adhesion in cancer cells with various metastatic potentials / Xin Tang ... [et al.] -- Systems biology of tumor cell migration in 3D : protein signaling / Jaya Srivastava and Muhammad H. Zaman -- Development of three-dimensional tumor models for the study of anti-cancer drug effects / Wei Sun, Raj Rajagopalan, and Chwee Teck Lim -- Mechanobiology of epidermal keratinocytes : desmosomes, hemidesmosomes, keratin intermediate filaments, and blistering skin diseases / John C. Selby -- Quantifying cell-matrix deformations in three dimensions / Christian Franck and Stacey A. Maskarinec -- Tools for studying biomechanical interactions in cells / Rebecca E. Taylor, Vikram Mukundan, and Beth L. Pruitt -- Biomaterials for studies in cellular mechanotransduction / Ross DeVolder and Hyunjoon Kong -- Optical sensing of red blood cell dynamics / YongKeun Park, Catherine A. Best, and Gabriel Popescu.