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Mechanical Cell–Cell Communication in Fibrous Networks: The Importance of Network Geometry

Cells contracting in extracellular matrix (ECM) can transmit stress over long distances, communicating their position and orientation to cells many tens of micrometres away. Such phenomena are not observed when cells are seeded on substrates with linear elastic properties, such as polyacrylamide (PA...

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Autores principales: Humphries, D. L., Grogan, J. A., Gaffney, E. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5331102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28130739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11538-016-0242-5