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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Alvin Kho
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-19500 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 20100107 5
The mechanical landscape in biological systems can be complex and dynamic, with contrasting sustained and fluctuating loads regularly superposed within the same tissue. How resident cells discriminate between these scenarios to respond accordingly remains largely unknown. Here, we show that a step increase in compressive stress of physiological magnitude shrinks the lateral intercellular space between bronchial epithelial cells, but does so with strikingly slow exponential kinetics (time constan ...[more]