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SUBMITTER: Rajagopalan J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2980728 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rajagopalan Jagannathan J Tofangchi Alireza A A Saif M Taher MT
Biophysical journal 20101101 10
Several experiments have shown that mechanical forces significantly influence the initiation, growth, and retraction of neurites of cultured neurons. A similar role has long been suggested for mechanical forces in vivo, but this hypothesis has remained unverified due to the paucity of in vivo studies of neuronal mechanical behavior. In this study, we used high-resolution micromechanical force sensors to study the mechanical response of motor neurons in live Drosophila embryos. Our experiments sh ...[more]