Experimental and computational investigation of the role of stress fiber contractility in the resistance of osteoblasts to compression

DOI10.1007/S11538-013-9812-YMaRDI QIDQ372025zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors P. P. Weafer, S. P. Jarvis, J. P. McGarry, William Ronan

Publication date 11 October 2013

Published in Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://hdl.handle.net/10379/4107

zbMATH Keywords

active stress fiber modelin-vitro cell compression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology (92-08) Biomechanics (92C10) Cell biology (92C37) Biochemistry, molecular biology (92C40)

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