Inferring cellular forces from image stacks

Measuring forces and stressesin situin living tissues

(2016) Kaoru Sugimura et al.   DEVELOPMENT

Cell mixing induced by myc is required for competitive tissue invasion and destruction

(2015) Romain Levayer et al.   NATURE

Pulsatile cell-autonomous contractility drives compaction in the mouse embryo

(2015) Jean-Léon Maître et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Mechanics of tissue compaction

(2015) Hervé Turlier et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Role of physical forces in embryonic development

(2015) Hiroshi Hamada   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Local Increases in Mechanical Tension Shape Compartment Boundaries by Biasing Cell Intercalations

(2014) Daiki Umetsu et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Forces driving epithelial wound healing

(2014) Agustí Brugués et al.   Nature Physics

CellFIT: A Cellular Force-Inference Toolkit Using Curvilinear Cell Boundaries

(2014) G. Wayne Brodland et al.   PLoS One

Fluorescence-Based Force/Tension Sensors: A Novel Tool to Visualize Mechanical Forces in Structural Proteins in Live Cells

(2013) Jun Guo et al.   ANTIOXIDANTS & REDOX SIGNALING

Forces in Tissue Morphogenesis and Patterning

(2013) Carl-Philipp Heisenberg et al.   CELL

Molecular Tension Sensors Report Forces Generated by Single Integrin Molecules in Living Cells

(2013) Masatoshi Morimatsu et al.   NANO LETTERS

Quantifying cell-generated mechanical forces within living embryonic tissues

(2013) Otger Campàs et al.   NATURE METHODS

Monolayer Stress Microscopy: Limitations, Artifacts, and Accuracy of Recovered Intercellular Stresses

(2013) Dhananjay T. Tambe et al.   PLoS One

Mechanics Meets Medicine

(2013) J. Guck et al.   Science Translational Medicine

Enabling user-guided segmentation and tracking of surface-labeled cells in time-lapse image sets of living tissues

(2012) David N. Mashburn et al.   CYTOMETRY PART A

E-cadherin is under constitutive actomyosin-generated tension that is increased at cell-cell contacts upon externally applied stretch

(2012) N. Borghi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adhesion Functions in Cell Sorting by Mechanically Coupling the Cortices of Adhering Cells

(2012) J.-L. Maitre et al.   SCIENCE

Mechanical Stress Inference for Two Dimensional Cell Arrays

(2012) Kevin K. Chiou et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Force Generation, Transmission, and Integration during Cell and Tissue Morphogenesis

(2011) Thomas Lecuit et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Balancing forces: architectural control of mechanotransduction

(2011) Christopher C. DuFort et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

Identifying Same-Cell Contours in Image Stacks: A Key Step in Making 3D Reconstructions

(2010) Tony Kin Shun Leung et al.   ANNALS OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

From genes to neural tube defects (NTDs): Insights from multiscale computational modeling

(2010) G. Wayne Brodland et al.   HFSP Journal

Measurement of mechanical tractions exerted by cells in three-dimensional matrices

(2010) Wesley R Legant et al.   NATURE METHODS

Video force microscopy reveals the mechanics of ventral furrow invagination in Drosophila

(2010) G. W. Brodland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Combining Laser Microsurgery and Finite Element Modeling to Assess Cell-Level Epithelial Mechanics

(2009) M. Shane Hutson et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Tensile forces govern germ-layer organization in zebrafish

(2008) M. Krieg et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Cell Sorting in Three Dimensions: Topology, Fluctuations, and Fluidlike Instabilities

(2008) M. Shane Hutson et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS