Cellular responses to beating hydrogels to investigate mechanotransduction

Mechanotransduction of cells is of interest for a number of reasons but model in vitro systems remain a challenge. Here, the authors report on a hydrogel which changes properties upon near infrared irradiation to create cyclic forces and demonstrate the application of these gels to study mechanotran...

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Main Authors: Yashoda Chandorkar, Arturo Castro Nava, Sjören Schweizerhof, Marcel Van Dongen, Tamás Haraszti, Jens Köhler, Hang Zhang, Reinhard Windoffer, Ahmed Mourran, Martin Möller, Laura De Laporte
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11475-4