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A Device to Study the Effects of Stretch Gradients on Cell Behavior
1 Oct 2011
Abstract excerpt
Mechanical forces are key regulators of cell function with varying loads capable of modulating behaviors such as alignment, migration, phenotype modulation, and others. Historically, cell-stretching experiments have employed mechanically simple environments (e.g., uniform uniaxial or equibiaxial stretches). However, stretch distributions in vivo can be highly non-uniform, particularly in cases of disease or...
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