Large deformation of living cells using laser traps

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Mechanical models for living cells--a review. (2006, background): “Lim et al. / Journal of Biomechanics 39 (2006) 195–216 196”
Review on Cell Mechanics: Experimental and Modeling Approaches (2013, methodology): “In addition to being used as a tool for probing whole-cell mechanical properties of red blood cells [172] [173] [174] [175] [176] [177] [178], fibroblasts [179] [180] [181], tumor cells [177] [181], chondrocytes/osteoblasts [182] [183] [184], epithelial cells [181], mesenchymal stem cells [185],…”
Connections between single-cell biomechanics and human disease states: gastrointestinal cancer and malaria. (2005, methodology): “Recently, direct tension loading of healthy RBCs has been achieved by employing the optical tweezers method [17,32–36], where two high refractive index beads attached to diametrically opposite ends of the cell can be moved apart relative to each other by optically trapping one or both beads with las”
Theoretical and computational hierarchical nanomechanics of protein materials: Deformation and fracture (2008, background): “4), as reflected in development and utilization of Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) [34,35], optical tweezers [10,13,29,36] or nanoindentation [11,12,37,38] to analyze biological materials.”