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A Detailed Protocol for Cell Force Measurement by Traction Force Microscopy

Smart Materials in Medicine, 2023
Cellular traction forces (CTFs) are generated by adherent cells and involved in regulating migration, morphology, and homeostasis. Accurate measurement of CTFs is crucial for understanding fundamental biological processes such as morphogenesis, angiogenesis, and wound healing.
Man Zhang, Yu Zhang, Peng Wang, Qian Sun, Xin Wang, Yi Cao, Qiang Wei   +6 more
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Matrix Stiffness Directs Stemness Signatures in Breast Cancer

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
We built lab‐grown breast cancer models to study how the stiffness of the tumor's surroundings influences cancer behavior. Softer environments encouraged more stem‐like, drug‐resistant cells, while stiffer ones kept cells more differentiated. These findings show that tissue mechanics drive cancer diversity and drug resistance, offering new insights for
Chantal Kopecky, Elvis Pandzic, Sean Porazinski, J Justin Gooding, Kristopher A Kilian   +4 more
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Optimization of traction parameters for lumbar scoliosis

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
Background Scoliosis is a high incidence disease that endangers the physical and mental health of adolescents. Traction therapy, as a conservative treatment plan, is helpful to improve the recovery speed of patients by studying the influence of different
Wei He, Jia-Long Li, Jia-Yu Wang, Da He, Kai Song   +4 more
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Traction Force Microscopy for Noninvasive Imaging of Cell Forces [PDF]

, 2018
The forces exerted by cells on their surroundings play an integral role in both physiological processes and disease progression. Traction force microscopy is a noninvasive technique that enables the in vitro imaging and quantification of cell forces. Utilizing expertise from a variety of disciplines, recent developments in traction force microscopy are
Jeffrey A, Mulligan, François, Bordeleau, Cynthia A, Reinhart-King, Steven G, Adie   +3 more
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Traction Force Microscopy for Understanding Cellular Mechanotransduction

BMB Reports, 2020
Under physiological and pathological conditions, mechanical forces generated from cells themselves or transmitted from extracellular matrix (ECM) through focal adhesions (FAs) and adherens junctions (AJs) are known to play a significant role in regulating various cell behaviors.
Hur, Sung Sik, Jeong, Ji Hoon, Ban, Myung Jin, Park, Jae Hong, Yoon, Jeong Kyo, Hwang, Yongsung   +5 more
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L1-regularized reconstruction for traction force microscopy [PDF]

2016 IEEE 13th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), 2016
Traction Force Microscopy (TFM) is a technique widely used to recover cellular tractions from the deformation they cause in their surrounding substrate. Traction recovery is an ill-posed inverse problem that benefits of a regularization scheme constraining the solution.
Suñé Auñón, Alejandro, Jorge Peñas, Alvaro, Van Oosterwyck, Hans, Muñoz Barrutia, Arrate   +3 more
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Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz, Manuel P. Kainz, Niklas Haider, Theresa Rienmüller, Kerstin Lenk, Rupert Kargl, Michele Terzano, Gerhard Sommer, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Julia Fuchs   +9 more
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Experimental Stand Movable Module for Determining the Traction-Linked Properties of Wheel Engines and the Results of Laboratory Researches for Determining the Traction Force of Two-Wheel Tractors

Инженерные технологии и системы, 2021
Introduction. Farmers make extensive use of two-wheel tractors equipped with traction and drive interchangeable units. Two-wheel tractors are required to move evenly with minimal slip of the drive wheels on the soil.
Vladimir F. Kupryashkin, Aleksandr S. Ulanov, Michail G. Shlyapnikov, Aleksandr Yu. Gusev, Vladimir I. Slavkin   +4 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades, Pedro Hidalgo, David Maestre, Ruth Martínez‐Casado, Emilio Nogales, Beatriz Rodríguez, G. Cristian Vásquez, Bianchi Méndez   +7 more
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