Cell Adhesion and Migration on Thickness Gradient Bilayer Polymer Brush Surfaces: Effects of Properties of Polymeric Materials of the Underlayer

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Polymer brush hypersurface photolithography

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Cell response to substrate rigidity is regulated by active and passive cytoskeletal stress

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Unique Cancer Migratory Behaviors in Confined Spaces of Microgroove Topography with Acute Wall Angles

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Interface of Phospholipid Polymer Grafting Layers to Analyze Functions of Immobilized Oligopeptides Involved in Cell Adhesion

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Durotaxis by Human Cancer Cells

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Substrate stiffness- and topography-dependent differentiation of annulus fibrosus-derived stem cells is regulated by Yes-associated protein

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Engineering the cellular mechanical microenvironment – from bulk mechanics to the nanoscale

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Layer-by-layer assembly as a robust method to construct extracellular matrix mimic surfaces to modulate cell behavior

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Brushing up functional materials

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Controlling Cell Behavior through the Design of Biomaterial Surfaces: A Focus on Surface Modification Techniques

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Selective Adhesion and Directional Migration of Endothelial Cells Guided by Cys‐Ala‐Gly Peptide Density Gradient on Antifouling Polymer Brushes

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Volume Adaptation Controls Stem Cell Mechanotransduction

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Mechanisms of 3D cell migration

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Mixed polymer brush as a functional ligand of silica beads for temperature-modulated hydrophobic and electrostatic interactions

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3D Spatiotemporal Mechanical Microenvironment: A Hydrogel-Based Platform for Guiding Stem Cell Fate

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Micro-/Nano-Scales Direct Cell Behavior on Biomaterial Surfaces

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Bimodal sensing of guidance cues in mechanically distinct microenvironments

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Detailed Analysis of Pancreatic Tumor Cell Attachment on Gradient PDEGMA Brushes

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Stem cell migration and mechanotransduction on linear stiffness gradient hydrogels

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Differences in Three-Dimensional Geometric Recognition by Non-Cancerous and Cancerous Epithelial Cells on Microgroove-Based Topography

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Cellular Response to Non-contacting Nanoscale Sublayer: Cells Sense Several Nanometer Mechanical Property

(2016) Tomoyuki Azuma et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Collective epithelial cell sheet adhesion and migration on polyelectrolyte multilayers with uniform and gradients of compliance

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Understanding the effect of hydrophobic protecting blocks on the stability and biopassivity of polymer brushes in aqueous environments: A Tiramisù for cell-culture applications

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A complementary density gradient of zwitterionic polymer brushes and NCAM peptides for selectively controlling directional migration of Schwann cells

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Polymer brush biointerfaces for highly sensitive biosensors that preserve the structure and function of immobilized proteins

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Stem-Cell Clinging by a Thread: AFM Measure of Polymer-Brush Lateral Deformation

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Initial Cell Adhesion on Well-Defined Surface by Polymer Brush Layers with Varying Chemical Structures

(2015) Kazuhiko Ishihara et al.   ACS Biomaterials-Science & Engineering

Initial Cell Adhesion on Well-Defined Surface by Polymer Brush Layers with Varying Chemical Structures

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Nano-palpation AFM and its quantitative mechanical property mapping

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Dynamically cell separating thermo-functional biointerfaces with densely packed polymer brushes

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Development of method for evaluating cell hardness and correlation between bacterial spore hardness and durability

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Significance of Antibody Orientation Unraveled: Well-Oriented Antibodies Recorded High Binding Affinity

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Micropatterned Thermoresponsive Polymer Brush Surfaces for Fabricating Cell Sheets with Well-Controlled Orientational Structures

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Collective Cell Migration

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Collective cell migration in morphogenesis, regeneration and cancer

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