Particle-tracking microrheology of living cells: principles and applications.

By Denis Wirtz. Annual Review of Biophysics, 2009

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Fluid Mechanics of Microrheology (2010, background): “…sample volumes, which enables studies of materials that are either expensive or impossible to acquire in larger quantities, including biomaterials and living cells (see, e.g., reviews by Weihs et al. 2006, Wirtz 2009) and combinatorial studies of material libraries (Breedveld & Pine 2003).”
Actin dynamics, architecture, and mechanics in cell motility. (2014, background): “The mechanical properties of branched actin networks are measured by “rheology” experiments, where the network is submitted to a force per unit surface or a pressure, and the consequent deformations are observed (59, 191, 252, 340).”
The physics of cancer: the role of physical interactions and mechanical forces in metastasis (2011, positive): “The cytoplasm is a complex composite system that behaves like an elastic material (such as rubber) at high deformation rates but more like a viscous material (such as ketchup) that exhibits a yield stress at low deformation rate”