Cooperative coupling of cell-matrix and cell-cell adhesions in cardiac muscle

Cardiac myocyte remodeling mediated by N-cadherin-dependent mechanosensing

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Cell-to-cell coupling in engineered pairs of rat ventricular cardiomyocytes: relation between Cx43 immunofluorescence and intercellular electrical conductance

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Matrix stiffening sensitizes epithelial cells to EGF and enables the loss of contact inhibition of proliferation

(2011) J.-H. Kim et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Mechanotransduction: the role of mechanical stress, myocyte shape, and cytoskeletal architecture on cardiac function

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Cell-ECM traction force modulates endogenous tension at cell-cell contacts

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X-ROS Signaling: Rapid Mechano-Chemo Transduction in Heart

(2011) B. L. Prosser et al.   SCIENCE

Self-Organization of Muscle Cell Structure and Function

(2011) Anna Grosberg et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Substrate stiffening promotes endothelial monolayer disruption through enhanced physical forces

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The Cardiac Desmosome and Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathies

(2010) Mario Delmar et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Vinculin potentiates E-cadherin mechanosensing and is recruited to actin-anchored sites within adherens junctions in a myosin II–dependent manner

(2010) Quint le Duc et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Adherens junctions: from molecules to morphogenesis

(2010) Tony J. C. Harris et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Role of CaMKII  phosphorylation of the cardiac ryanodine receptor in the force frequency relationship and heart failure

(2010) A. Kushnir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mechanical tugging force regulates the size of cell-cell junctions

(2010) Z. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Time-Warped Comparison of Gene Expression in Adaptive and Maladaptive Cardiac Hypertrophy

(2009) Sean P. Sheehy et al.   Circulation-Cardiovascular Genetics

The Control of Vascular Integrity by Endothelial Cell Junctions: Molecular Basis and Pathological Implications

(2009) Elisabetta Dejana et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL CELL

Topographic mapping and compression elasticity analysis of skinned cardiac muscle fibers in vitro with atomic force microscopy and nanoindentation

(2009) Jie Zhu et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

The biomechanical integrin

(2009) Erin L. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

A New Diagnostic Test for Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy

(2009) Angeliki Asimaki et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Defining the role of syndecan-4 in mechanotransduction using surface-modification approaches

(2009) Robert M. Bellin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structural coupling of cardiomyocytes and noncardiomyocytes: quantitative comparisons using a novel micropatterned cell pair assay

(2008) Dawn M. Pedrotty et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Substrate Stiffness Affects the Functional Maturation of Neonatal Rat Ventricular Myocytes

(2008) Jeffrey G. Jacot et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Embryonic cardiomyocytes beat best on a matrix with heart-like elasticity: scar-like rigidity inhibits beating

(2008) A. J. Engler et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

The Frank-Starling mechanism in vertebrate cardiac myocytes

(2008) H. A. Shiels et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Environmental sensing through focal adhesions

(2008) Benjamin Geiger et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Resolving cadherin interactions and binding cooperativity at the single-molecule level

(2008) Y. Zhang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA