Traction fields, moments, and strain energy that cells exert on their surroundings.

By J. Butler, I. Tolic-Nørrelykke, B. Fabry, Jeffrey J. Fredberg. American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology, 2002

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Cell Biology

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Tensegrity I. Cell structure and hierarchical systems biology (2003, methodology): “…experimental measurement of cultured cells, using traction force microscopy to quantify prestress within individual cells (Pelham and Wang, 1997; Butler et al., 2002) and magnetic twisting cytometry to measure cell stiffness, reveals a linear correlation between stiffness (elastic modulus) and…”
High resolution traction force microscopy based on experimental and computational advances. (2008, methodology): “Fourier methods have been introduced for traction force reconstruction ( 24 ) because the convolution of Eq. 1 becomes a simple product in Fourier space.”
Spatial coordination between cell and nuclear shape within micropatterned endothelial cells (2012, methodology): “The change of the position of the fluorescence beads were measured in Matlab software using an algorithm described previousl”
Cell prestress. I. Stiffness and prestress are closely associated in adherent contractile cells. (2002, methodology): “(7), but the contractile moment can be thought of loosely as an equivalent force generator comprising only two imaginary point forces (F) that are equal, opposite, and separated by a distance (d).”
Viscoelastic retraction of single living stress fibers and its impact on cell shape, cytoskeletal organization, and extracellular matrix mechanics. (2006, methodology): “stress fibers were computed from bead positions before and after stress fiber incision using Fourier transform traction cytometry (45).”
Physics of adherent cells (2013, background): “Motivated by experimental measurements of cellular traction patterns (Butler et al., 2002; Dembo and Wang, 1999; Schwarz et al., 2002), it has been suggested that the contractile activity of cells can be modeled as anisotropic force contraction dipoles (Schwarz et al., 2002; Schwarz and Safran,…”