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Igor Sokolov1,2,3, Maxim E Dokukin4

  • 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. Igor.sokolov@tufts.edu.

Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|June 30, 2018
PubMed

Keywords:
Atomic force microscopyCell mechanicsIndentation analysisPhysical properties of pericellular coatPhysics of cells

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