Physics of adherent cells

By Ulrich S. Schwarz, Shmuel Safran. 2013

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properties of cells and their physical environment. Here we review recent progress in our understanding of the role of forces in cell adhesion from the viewpoint of theoretical soft matter physics and in close relation to the relevant experiments.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/a233ab34491745dc0b00f23685f4a66a3aad1de0

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Citations in the corpus

• Nonequilibrium physics in biology (2019, background): “Cells adhere to other cells, a substrate, or the extracellular matrix via transmembrane proteins like integrins and cadherins (Schwarz and Safran, 2013).”
• Statics and Dynamics of Soft Wetting (2020, background): “Contact line forces provide a unique mechanical probe of biological matter, while drops on gels offer a model system to study principles of mechanobiology (Schwarz & Safran 2013, Charras & Sahai 2014, Humphrey et al. 2014).”