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SUBMITTER: Iyer S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3079421 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Iyer S S Gaikwad R M RM Subba-Rao V V Woodworth C D CD Sokolov Igor I
Nature nanotechnology 20090412 6
The atomic force microscope is broadly used to study the morphology of cells, but it can also probe the mechanics of cells. It is now known that cancerous cells may have different mechanical properties to those of normal cells, but the reasons for these differences are poorly understood. Here, we report quantitatively the differences between normal and cancerous human cervical epithelial cells by considering the brush layer on the cell surface. These brush layers, which consist mainly of microvi ...[more]