Viscoelastic properties of the cell nucleus.

By F. Guilak, J. Tedrow, Rainer Burgkart. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications - BBRC, 2000

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Mechanical models for living cells--a review. (2006, background): “Further, it has been demonstrated that the nucleus is many times stiffer and more viscous than the surrounding cytoplasm (Dong et al., 1991; Guilak et al., 2000; Caille et al., 2002).”
Mechanical properties of biological specimens explored by atomic force microscopy (2013, background): “Due to its high lateral resolution, AFM can target and measure, in living mammalian cells, the stiffness of specific cellular components such as nuclei [94, 95], protein secreting vesicles [96], cytoskeleton components [97] or even cell membrane [98].”
Review on Cell Mechanics: Experimental and Modeling Approaches (2013, background): “The main role of a cell's nucleus is to regulate gene expression, but it also has a degree of structural stiffness and plasticity that can play a role in cell mechanics and mechanotransduction [20] [21] [22] [23].”