Local mechanical properties of bladder cancer cells measured by AFM as a signature of metastatic potential

Atomic Force Microscopy Mechanical Mapping of Micropatterned Cells Shows Adhesion Geometry-Dependent Mechanical Response on Local and Global Scales

(2015) Annafrancesca Rigato et al.   ACS Nano

Cell Shape Dynamics Reveal Balance of Elasticity and Contractility in Peripheral Arcs

(2015) Céline Labouesse et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Physical properties of polyacrylamide gels probed by AFM and rheology

(2015) Yara Abidine et al.   EPL

Active gel physics

(2015) J. Prost et al.   Nature Physics

Cells as liquid motors: Mechanosensitivity emerges from collective dynamics of actomyosin cortex

(2015) Jocelyn Étienne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Probing the Stochastic, Motor-Driven Properties of the Cytoplasm Using Force Spectrum Microscopy

(2014) Ming Guo et al.   CELL

The softening of human bladder cancer cells happens at an early stage of the malignancy process

(2014) Jorge R Ramos et al.   Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology

Atomic force microscopy-based microrheology reveals significant differences in the viscoelastic response between malign and benign cell lines

(2014) J. Rother et al.   Open Biology

Quantifying Cell-to-Cell Variation in Power-Law Rheology

(2013) PingGen Cai et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Time-dependent traction force microscopy for cancer cells as a measure of invasiveness

(2013) Valentina Peschetola et al.   Cytoskeleton

Increased plasticity of the stiffness of melanoma cells correlates with their acquisition of metastatic properties

(2013) Gilles Weder et al.   Nanomedicine-Nanotechnology Biology and Medicine

Comparison of the viscoelastic properties of cells from different kidney cancer phenotypes measured with atomic force microscopy

(2013) L M Rebelo et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Thickness-corrected model for nanoindentation of thin films with conical indenters

(2012) J. A. C. Santos et al.   Soft Matter

Biomechanical regulation of contractility: spatial control and dynamics

(2011) Romain Levayer et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

An active biopolymer network controlled by molecular motors

(2009) G. H. Koenderink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The number distribution of complex shear modulus of single cells measured by atomic force microscopy

(2009) Shinichiro Hiratsuka et al.   ULTRAMICROSCOPY

Is Cell Rheology Governed by Nonequilibrium-to-Equilibrium Transition of Noncovalent Bonds?

(2008) Farhan Chowdhury et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Mechanical Properties of Actin Stress Fibers in Living Cells

(2008) Lan Lu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

The actin cytoskeleton in cancer cell motility

(2008) Michael F. Olson et al.   CLINICAL & EXPERIMENTAL METASTASIS

AFM-based analysis of human metastatic cancer cells

(2008) Sarah E Cross et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Softening of the actin cytoskeleton by inhibition of myosin II

(2008) Jan Christian Martens et al.   PFLUGERS ARCHIV-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY