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SUBMITTER: Yu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3528092 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yu Haiyang H Lui Yuan Siang YS Xiong Sijing S Leong Wen Shing WS Wen Feng F Nurkahfianto Himawan H Rana Sravendra S Leong David Tai DT Ng Kee Woei KW Tan Lay Poh LP
Stem cells and development 20120816 1
We report the establishment of a novel platform to induce myogenic differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) via focal adhesion (FA) modulation, giving insights into the role of FA on stem cell differentiation. Micropatterning of collagen type I on a polyacrylamide gel with a stiffness of 10.2 kPa efficiently modulated elongated FA. This elongated FA profile preferentially recruited the β(3) integrin cluster and induced specific myogenic differentiation at both transcription and tr ...[more]