Cell mechanics and cellular engineering /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Symposium on Cell Mechanics and Cellular Engineering
Other Authors: Mow, Van C.
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer-Verlag, [1994]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Constitutive modeling and mechanical properties of circulating cells
  • Human neutrophils under mechanical stress
  • Viscous behavior of leukocytes
  • Shear rate-dependence of leukocyte cytoplasmic viscosity
  • Cell tumbling in laminar flow: cell velocity is a unique function of the shear rate
  • Flow-induced effects on cell morphology and function
  • Regulation of vascular endothelial biology by flow.
  • Flow modulation of receptor function in leukocyte adhesion to endothelial cells
  • Osteoblast responses to steady shear stress
  • Effects of shear stress on cytoskeletal structure and physiological functions of cultured endothelial cells
  • Mechanics and biology of cell-substrate interactions
  • Kinetics and mechanics of cell adhesion under hydrodynamic flow: two cell systems.
  • Initial steps of cell-substrate adhesion
  • Cell-cell adhesion model for the analysis of micropipette experiments
  • Cell-matrix interactions and adhesion molecules
  • Biphasic theory and in vitro assays of cell-fibril mechanical interactions in tissue-equivalent gels
  • Mechanical load = growth factors induce [Ca²⁺]i release, cyclin D₁ expression and DNA synthesis in avian tendon cells
  • Cytomechanics of transdifferentiation.
  • Molecular and biophysical mechanisms of mechanical signal transduction
  • Signal transduction cascades involved in mechanoresponsive changes in gene expression
  • Cytoskeletal plaque proteins as regulators of cell motility and tumor suppressors
  • Mechanical signal transduction and G proteins
  • Modeling mechanical-electrical transduction in the heart
  • Cellular tensegrity and mechanochemical transduction.
  • Physical regulation of tissue metabolic activity
  • Stress, strain, pressure and flow fields in articular cartilage and chondrocytes
  • Deformation-induced calcium signaling in articular chondrocytes
  • Effects of hydrostatic and osmotic pressures on chondrocyte metabolism
  • Proteoglycan synthesis and cytoskeleton in hydrostatically loaded chondrocytes.
  • Altered chondrocyte gene expression in articular cartilage matrix components and susceptibility to cartilage destruction
  • Mechanics of cell motility and morphogenesis
  • Mechanics of cell locomotion
  • Correlation ratchet: a novel mechanism for generating directed motion by ATP hydrolysis
  • Receptor-mediated adhesive interactions at the cytoskeleton/substratum interface during cell migration.
  • Actin polymerization and gel osmotic swelling in tumor cell pseudopod formation
  • Biomechanical model for skeletal muscle microcirculation with reference to red and white blood cell perfusion and autoregulation.