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AFM Detects Differences in the Surface Brush of Normal and Cancerous Cervical Cells

The atomic force microscope is broadly used to study the morphology of cells1–5 but it can also probe the mechanics of cells. It is now known that cancerous cells may have different mechanical properties than normal cells6–8 but the reasons for these differences are poorly understood9. Here we repor...

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Autores principales: Iyer, S., Gaikwad, R. M., Subba-Rao, V., Woodworth, C. D., Sokolov, Igor
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079421/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19498402
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.77