Keywords:
Cells--Mechanical properties--Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (571 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781461384250
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=3078583
Language:
English
Note:
Cell Mechanics and Cellular Engineering -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I Constitutive Modeling and Mechanical Properties of Circulating Cells -- 1 Human Neutrophils Under Mechanical Stress. -- 2 Viscous Behavior of Leukocytes -- 3 Shear Rate-Dependence of Leukocyte Cytoplasmic Viscosity -- 4 Cell Tumbling in Laminar Flow: Cell Velocity is a Unique Function of the Shear Rate -- Part II Flow-Induced Effects on Cell Morphology and Function -- 5 The Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Biology by Flow -- 6 Flow Modulation of Receptor Function in Leukocyte Adhesion to Endothelial Cells -- 7 Osteoblast Responses to Steady Shear Stress -- 8 Effects of Shear Stress on Cytoskeletal Structure and Physiological Functions of Cultured Endothelial Cells -- Part III Mechanics and Biology of Cell-Substrate Interactions -- 9 Kinetics and Mechanics of Cell Adhesion under Hydrodynamic Flow: Two Cell Systems -- 10 Initial Steps of Cell-Substrate Adhesion -- 11 A Cell-Cell Adhesion Model for the Analysis of Micropipette Experiments -- Part IV Cell-Matrix Interactions and Adhesion Molecules -- 12 Biphasic Theory and In Vitro Assays of Cell-Fibril Mechanical Interactions in Tissue-Equivalent Gels -- 13 Mechanical Load ± Growth Factors Induce [Ca2+]i Release, Cyclin Di Expression and DNA Synthesis in Avian Tendon Cells -- 14 Cytomechanics of Transdifferentiation -- Part V Molecular and Biophysical Mechanisms of Mechanical Signal Transduction -- 15 Signal Transduction Cascades Involved in Mechanoresponsive Changes in Gene Expression -- 16 Cytoskeletal Plaque Proteins as Regulators of Cell Motility, and Tumor Suppressors -- 17 Mechanical Signal Transduction and G proteins -- 18 Modeling Mechanical-Electrical Transduction in the Heart -- 19 Cellular Tensegrity and Mechanochemical Transduction.
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Part VI Physical Regulation of Tissue Metabolic Activity -- 20 Stress, Strain, Pressure and Flow Fields in Articular Cartilage and Chondrocytes -- 21 Deformation-Induced Calcium Signaling in Articular Chondrocytes -- 22 The Effects of Hydrostatic and Osmotic Pressures on Chondrocyte Metabolism -- 23 Proteoglycan Synthesis and Cytoskeleton in Hydrostatically Loaded Chondrocytes -- 24 Altered Chondrocyte Gene Expression in Articular Cartilage Matrix Components and Susceptibility to Cartilage Destruction -- Part VII Mechanics of Cell Motility and Morphogenesis -- 25 Mechanics of Cell Locomotion -- 26 The Correlation Ratchet: A Novel Mechanism For Generating Directed Motion By ATP Hydrolysis -- 27 Receptor-Mediated Adhesive Interactions at the Cytoskeleton/Substratum Interface During Cell Migration -- 28 Actin Polymerization and Gel Osmotic Swelling in Tumor Cell Pseudopod Formation -- 29 Biomechanical Model for Skeletal Muscle Microcirculation with Reference to Red and White Blood Cell Perfusion and Autoregulation.
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