Traction force and tension fluctuations in growing axons
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Traction force and tension fluctuations in growing axons
Actively generated mechanical forces play a central role in axon growth and guidance, but the mechanisms that underly force generation and regulation in growing axons remain poorly understood. We report measurements of the dynamics of traction stresses from growth cones of actively advancing axons from postnatal rat DRG neurons. By tracking the movement of the growth cone and analyzing the trac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1662-5102
DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2015.00417