Apparent elastic modulus and hysteresis of skeletal muscle cells throughout differentiation
Departments of 1 Biomedical Engineering and 2 Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708 The effect of differentiation on the transverse mechanical properties of mammalian myocytes was determined by using atomic force microscopy. The apparent elastic modulus increased from 11.5 ± 1.3 ...
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Veröffentlicht in: | American Journal of Physiology: Cell Physiology 2002-10, Vol.283 (4), p.C1219-C1227 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Departments of 1 Biomedical Engineering and
2 Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
27708
The effect of differentiation on the
transverse mechanical properties of mammalian myocytes was determined
by using atomic force microscopy. The apparent elastic modulus
increased from 11.5 ± 1.3 kPa for undifferentiated myoblasts to
45.3 ± 4.0 kPa after 8 days of differentiation ( P |
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ISSN: | 0363-6143 1522-1563 |
DOI: | 10.1152/ajpcell.00502.2001 |