Mechanobiology of cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions
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Springer Science+Business Media,
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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 |
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"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. |