Cell and matrix mechanics / edited by Roland Kaunas, Assaf Zemel. -- Boca Raton, FL : Taylor & Francis, c2015. – (58.1574/C393x)

Contents

Preface

Editors

Contributors

1. Active Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton

2. Mechanobiology of the Cell Membrane

3. Cellular Reconstitution of Actively Self-Organizing Systems

4. Structural and Dynamical Hierarchy of Fibrillar Collagen

5. Cell-Matrix and Cell-Cell Mechanical Interactions

6. Dynamic Stress Fiber Reorganization on Stretched Matrices

7. Mechanics of Cell-Seeded ECM Scaffolds

8. Cell Motility in 3D Matrices

9. Collective Cell Migration

10. Connective Tissue Development

11. Cellular Forces in Morphogenesis

12. Mechanics of Tissue Morphogenesis

13. Continuum Physics of Tumor Growth

14. Cell Force-Mediated Collagen Remodeling in Cancer Metastasis

Index