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SUBMITTER: Soine JR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4992736 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Soiné Jérôme R D JR Hersch Nils N Dreissen Georg G Hampe Nico N Hoffmann Bernd B Merkel Rudolf R Schwarz Ulrich S US
Interface focus 20161001 5
Animal cells use traction forces to sense the mechanics and geometry of their environment. Measuring these traction forces requires a workflow combining cell experiments, image processing and force reconstruction based on elasticity theory. Such procedures have already been established mainly for planar substrates, in which case one can use the Green's function formalism. Here we introduce a workflow to measure traction forces of cardiac myofibroblasts on non-planar elastic substrates. Soft elas ...[more]