Rigidity Sensing Explained by Active Matter Theory
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Rigidity sensing explained by active matter theory.
The magnitude of traction forces exerted by living animal cells on their environment is a monotonically increasing and approximately sigmoidal function of the stiffness of the external medium. We rationalize this observation using active matter theory, and propose that adaptation to substrate rigidity results from an interplay between passive elasticity and active contractility.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Biophysical Journal
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0006-3495
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.08.023