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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"adhesion cluster"”.
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Biological Adhesion on Nanopatterned Substrates Studied with Force Spectroscopy and Microinterferometry
For a physical understanding of adhesion, surfaces of defined adhesion properties are required. In this work, biofunctional nanopatterns were employed, which allow molecules to be positioned in a quasi-hexagonal lattice. For such an arrangement of streptavidin molecules the surface energy was …
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Suspended Micro/Nanofiber Hierarchical Scaffolds for Studying Cell Mechanobiology
… shape (shape index 0.75 to 0.99) and focal adhesion cluster length (8-15 micrometer). To further investigate single cell-ECM biophysical interactions, nanofiber nets fused in crisscross patterns were manufactured to measure the "inside out" contractile forces of single mesenchymal stem cells …
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Cell-Fiber Interactions: A New Route to Mechano-Biological Investigations in Developmental and Disease Biology
… to cytoskeleton arrangement, including focal adhesion cluster lengths and nucleus shape indices, leading to altered migration speeds. It is hypothesized that these behaviors occur due to modulation of cellular inside-out forces in response to changes in the external fibrous environment …
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Stochastic dynamics of adhesion clusters under force
Adhesion of biological cells to their environment is mediated by two-dimensional clusters of specific adhesion molecules which are assembled in the plasma membrane of the cells. Due to the activity of the cells or external influences, these adhesion sites are usually subject to physical forces. In …