Gopal Niraula1, Azarnoosh Foroozandehfar1, Fred Rogers Namanda2

  • 1Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Iowa State University, 2114 Sweeney Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.

ACS nano
|August 14, 2025
PubMed
概括

细胞对对齐的原纤维施加引力,这对于理解癌症和纤维化等受影响组织的迁移至关重要. 这项研究揭示了基质刚性和细胞骨元素如何调节这些力.

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