Featured Article: Temporal responses of human endothelial and smooth muscle cells exposed to uniaxial cyclic tensile strain

Alteration of human umbilical vein endothelial cell gene expression in different biomechanical environments

(2013) Shahrokh Shoajei et al.   CELL BIOLOGY INTERNATIONAL

Mechanical regulation of epigenetics in vascular biology and pathobiology

(2013) Li-Jing Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR MEDICINE

Biomechanical regulation of vascular smooth muscle cell functions: from in vitro to in vivo understanding

(2013) J. Qiu et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Vascular tissue engineering: from in vitro to in situ

(2013) Song Li et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Systems Biology and Medicine

Impact of Endothelial Cells on 3D Cultured Smooth Muscle Cells in a Biomimetic Hydrogel

(2012) Yunxiao Liu et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

The Effect of Pressure-Induced Mechanical Stretch on Vascular Wall Differential Gene Expression

(2012) M.A. Anwar et al.   JOURNAL OF VASCULAR RESEARCH

Structure and function of focal adhesions

(2011) Bernhard Wehrle-Haller   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Actin Fusion Proteins Alter the Dynamics of Mechanically Induced Cytoskeleton Rearrangement

(2011) Martin Deibler et al.   PLoS One

Age-Dependent Changes in Microscale Stiffness and Mechanoresponses of Cells

(2011) Jasmin T. Zahn et al.   Small

Mechanical Integration of Actin and Adhesion Dynamics in Cell Migration

(2010) Margaret L. Gardel et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cyclic stretch-induced stress fiber dynamics – Dependence on strain rate, Rho-kinase and MLCK

(2010) Chin-Fu Lee et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Force-induced cell polarisation is linked to RhoA-driven microtubule-independent focal-adhesion sliding

(2009) A. M. Goldyn et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL SCIENCE

A Dynamic Stochastic Model of Frequency-Dependent Stress Fiber Alignment Induced by Cyclic Stretch

(2009) Hui-Ju Hsu et al.   PLoS One

Two Characteristic Regimes in Frequency-Dependent Dynamic Reorientation of Fibroblasts on Cyclically Stretched Substrates

(2008) Simon Jungbauer et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL

Role of Cyclic Strain Frequency in Regulating the Alignment of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells In Vitro

(2007) Bo Liu et al.   BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL