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Swelling‐Programmed Topographical Guidance for Dynamic Spheroid Self‐Assembly via a Mechanochemical Hydrogel Niche

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A swelling‐programmed micropatterned hydrogel guides adherent cells through a controlled transition from cell–matrix anchoring to cadherin‐mediated cell–cell compaction, enabling rapid assembly of high‐viability spheroids with defined size and morphology.
Han Gyeol Nam, Seon Yeong Chae, Young Woo Kwon, Hye Jin Heo, Hye Rin Lee, Ji Hyeok Lee, Dong‐Wook Han, Yun Hak Kim, Suck Won Hong   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cellular responses to beating hydrogels to investigate mechanotransduction [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2019
AbstractCells feel the forces exerted on them by the surrounding extracellular matrix (ECM) environment and respond to them. While many cell fate processes are dictated by these forces, which are highly synchronized in space and time, abnormal force transduction is implicated in the progression of many diseases (muscular dystrophy, cancer).
Yashoda Chandorkar, Arturo Castro Nava, Sjören Schweizerhof, Marcel Van Dongen, Tamás Haraszti, Jens Köhler, Hang Zhang, Reinhard Windoffer, Ahmed Mourran, Martin Möller, Laura De Laporte   +10 more
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Understanding Multicellularity: The Functional Organization of the Intercellular Space [PDF]

, 2019
The aim of this paper is to provide a theoretical framework to understand how multicellular systems realize functionally integrated physiological entities by organizing their intercellular space. From a perspective centered on physiology and integration,
Bich, Leonardo, Moreau, Jean-Francois, Pradeu, Thomas   +2 more
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Active Learning‐Accelerated Discovery of Fibrous Hydrogels with Tissue‐Mimetic Viscoelasticity

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Active learning accelerates the design of fibrous hydrogels that mimic the viscoelasticity of native tissues. By integrating multi‐objective optimization and closed‐loop experimentation, this approach efficiently identifies optimal formulations from thousands of possibilities and decouples elasticity and viscosity. The resulting hydrogels offer tunable
Zhengkun Chen, Zheyuan Miao, Gary Tom, Austin H. Cheng, Elizaveta Gusarova, Benjamen Zondag, Tianyi Wu, Dianoosh Kalhori, Boris Hinz, Milad Abolhasani, Alán Aspuru‐Guzik, Eugenia Kumacheva   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biomimetic substrate control of cellular mechanotransduction

Biomaterials Research, 2016
Abstract Extracellular mechanophysical signals from both static substrate cue and dynamic mechanical loading have strong potential to regulate cell functions. Most of the studies have adopted either static or dynamic cue and shown that each cue can regulate cell adhesion, spreading, migration, proliferation, lineage commitment, and ...
Andalib, Mohammad Nahid, Dzenis, Yuris A, Donahue, Henry J., Lim, Jung Yul   +3 more
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Sensor potency of the moonlighting enzyme-decorated cytoskeleton [PDF]

, 2013
Background: There is extensive evidence for the interaction of metabolic enzymes with the eukaryotic cytoskeleton. The significance of these interactions is far from clear.
Amar Patrick, Legent Guillaume, Norris Vic, Ovádi Judit, Ripoll Camille, Thellier Michel   +5 more
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) in Tendon Regeneration: A Comprehensive Review

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) offers a promising solution by replicating the native tendon microenvironment and promoting regeneration. This review highlights advances in the decellularization methods, as well as their integration with emerging technologies and translational progress in tendon tissue engineering.
Kumaresan Sakthiabirami, Yeonwoo Park, Seong Kyeong Jo, Min Hee Kim, Jae Hwang Song   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of cellular mechanotransduction to cardiomyocyte form and function [PDF]

Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2012
Myocardial development is regulated by an elegantly choreographed ensemble of signaling events mediated by a multitude of intermediates that take a variety of forms. Cellular differentiation and maturation are a subset of vertically integrated processes that extend over several spatial and temporal scales to create a well-defined collective of cells ...
Sean P, Sheehy, Anna, Grosberg, Kevin Kit, Parker   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

DDR2 controls breast tumor stiffness and metastasis by regulating integrin mediated mechanotransduction in CAFs [PDF]

, 2019
Biomechanical changes in the tumor microenvironment influence tumor progression and metastases. Collagen content and fiber organization within the tumor stroma are major contributors to biomechanical changes (e., tumor stiffness) and correlated with ...
Barcus, Craig E, Bayer, Samantha V.H., Brenot, Audrey, Ernst, Melanie, Grither, Whitney R, Hwang, Priscilla Y, Longmore, Gregory D, Pathak, Amit, Pence, Patrick, Walter, Christopher   +9 more
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Effect of Low-magnitude, High-frequency Vibration on Osteocytes in the Regulation of Osteoclasts [PDF]

, 2010
Osteocytes are well evidenced to be the major mechanosensor in bone, responsible for sending signals to the effector cells (osteoblasts and osteoclasts) that carry out bone formation and resorption. Consistent with this hypothesis, it has been shown that
Al-Dujaili, Saja, Guenther, Axel, Lau, Esther, Liu, Dawei, Wang, Liyun, You, Lidan   +5 more
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