Cell-mediated fibre recruitment drives extracellular matrix mechanosensing in engineered fibrillar microenvironments

Substrate stress relaxation regulates cell spreading

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Remodeling of Fibrous Extracellular Matrices by Contractile Cells: Predictions from Discrete Fiber Network Simulations

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Rigidity sensing and adaptation through regulation of integrin types

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Fibers in the Extracellular Matrix Enable Long-Range Stress Transmission between Cells

(2013) Xiaoyue Ma et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Degradation-mediated cellular traction directs stem cell fate in covalently crosslinked three-dimensional hydrogels

(2013) Sudhir Khetan et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Rapid disorganization of mechanically interacting systems of mammary acini

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Matrix stiffness reverses the effect of actomyosin tension on cell proliferation

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Deconstructing the third dimension – how 3D culture microenvironments alter cellular cues

(2012) Brendon M. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

Extracellular-matrix tethering regulates stem-cell fate

(2012) Britta Trappmann et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Long-range mechanical force enables self-assembly of epithelial tubular patterns

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Biophysical regulation of tumor cell invasion: moving beyond matrix stiffness

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Hierarchical Structure and Nanomechanics of Collagen Microfibrils from the Atomistic Scale Up

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The role of stiffness of gelatin–hydroxyphenylpropionic acid hydrogels formed by enzyme-mediated crosslinking on the differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cell

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Myosin II activity regulates vinculin recruitment to focal adhesions through FAK-mediated paxillin phosphorylation

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Nanomechanical Properties of Supramolecular Self-Assembled Whiskers Determined by AFM Force Mapping

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A distinctive role for focal adhesion proteins in three-dimensional cell motility

(2010) Stephanie I. Fraley et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Reply: reducing background fluorescence reveals adhesions in 3D matrices

(2010) Stephanie I. Fraley et al.   NATURE CELL BIOLOGY

Harnessing traction-mediated manipulation of the cell/matrix interface to control stem-cell fate

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Mechanical regulation of cell function with geometrically modulated elastomeric substrates

(2010) Jianping Fu et al.   NATURE METHODS

A mechanical model of actin stress fiber formation and substrate elasticity sensing in adherent cells

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Direct Comparisons of the Morphology, Migration, Cell Adhesions, and Actin Cytoskeleton of Fibroblasts in Four Different Three-Dimensional Extracellular Matrices

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Image-based multiscale modeling predicts tissue-level and network-level fiber reorganization in stretched cell-compacted collagen gels

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Fibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sites

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Characterization of High Affinity Binding Motifs for the Discoidin Domain Receptor DDR2 in Collagen

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Mechanotransduction in development: a growing role for contractility

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Mechanotransduction gone awry

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Traction Dynamics of Filopodia on Compliant Substrates

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